Ozzie M. Gartrell, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/ozzie-m-gartrell/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:10:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ozzie M. Gartrell, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/ozzie-m-gartrell/ 32 32 153713158 “Those That Sow and Those That Reap” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/those-that-sow-and-reap/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:53:50 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77589 On a nimbus of decay, it emerged from the dark recesses of her closet and crept spiderlike toward her threadbare rug. Humid cold wafted from its shadowy body. The reek of wet mulch and grave soil slithered into her nostrils and she shivered. Their eyes locked. Hers: wide, panicked, and brown; it: reptilian, golden, and ancient. Her mouth opened to scream but only wheezing gasps emerged. She attempted to wiggle away or shield herself with trembling hands, but it was too late. As soon as she’d woken to limbs heavy with sleep paralysis, she knew she could not be saved.

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