Love makeda, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/love-makeda/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:37:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Love makeda, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/love-makeda/ 32 32 153713158 Bleu Rivers https://www.midnightandindigo.com/bleu-rivers/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:00:35 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=80686 Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can see is me in Bleu—me in his arms, me in his whispers, me in his dreams. I try not to close my eyes. Try not to forget that I vowed to escape the smallness of this island. It suffocates me. Mama, the most. She blames me for Papi’s death. It happened three years ago when I was only fourteen. And I couldn’t have stopped Papi’s dinghy from getting lost at sea anymore than Mama could. Still, if she was the hammer, I was her nail. She never failed to hit me

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