Lynn Brown, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/lynn-brown/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:14:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lynn Brown, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/lynn-brown/ 32 32 153713158 “The Devil in Tia Adelina’s Botanica” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/tia-adelinas-botanica/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:00:49 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77580 It was a bitterly cold November evening, fifteen minutes or so before closing when the young man first walked into Tia Adelina’s botanica. He was clearly homeless. Swathed in what looked like a tattered old bedsheet, he shuffled in from the cold. His long dark hair was wildly tangled and matted in places. His face had the sharp angularity and sunken eyes of starvation. It was rare that the homeless wandered into Adelina’s store, though it was her policy to treat them with kindness when they did. Particularly when they paused to greet Eshu when they came in, as the

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