Sannii Crespina-flores, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/sannii-crespina-flores/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:42:02 +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 Sannii Crespina-flores, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/sannii-crespina-flores/ 32 32 153713158 “An Acceptable Sacrifice” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/an-acceptable-sacrifice/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:00:16 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77662 We arrived with our gods, walked them into the soil and braided totems into our hair. Distance and time made memory a myth. The wind sang a lullaby that brought to mind lavender and lemons but the words were a mystery. She could feel the words pressing against her lips begging her to remember. She could not, not now. The only tide rising now, right now had been ‘hushed’ by the women preparing the way with wax, water, rum and fire. The women sang too, some forked tongue melody of moon goddesses and warriors that were birthed by the ocean.

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