Malissa White, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/malissa-white/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:41:06 +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 Malissa White, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/malissa-white/ 32 32 153713158 “Vessel” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/vessel-an-excerpt/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:41:45 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77675 Mama always said the Devil is a lie. I remember thinking that before it happened. But Mama was wrong. The Devil isn’t some jealous white boy with a torture fetish. The Devil, the real Devil, is the truth. And hell? Hell is her sword. I was fourteen hours into that leg of my journey to the Adirondack Mountains. Outside, the woods blurred black and green. My Bronco’s rumbling just beneath Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” lent a roar to the song. Her voice, heavy and lonely, sounded like she did on Mama’s old vinyl. Every time I heard it, I felt

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