Melissa Watkins, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/melissa-watkins/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:15:20 +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 Melissa Watkins, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/melissa-watkins/ 32 32 153713158 “Dragonflies” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/dragonflies/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:34:25 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77324 They were floating, flying in tandem, punctuated by the last of the year’s sunlight, perfectly together. Nothing could separate them. The voices of children, the rush of the wind, the first pinpricks of winter’s chill all passed by, but for them, there was nothing but the beating of wings and the buzz of life and the closeness. There was stability and freedom, peace and chaos, everything but— Her seal broke with a whooshing gasp of stale air and she was suddenly painfully conscious. In old movies, they always showed the process of coming out of stasis as a long, slow,

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