Yakima Cuffy, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/yakima-cuffy/ A Home for Black Women Writers Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:25:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Yakima Cuffy, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/yakima-cuffy/ 32 32 153713158 “Corona & A Side of Chow Mein” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/corona-side-of-chow-mein/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:00:35 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77271 SOUP: It is barely dawn, and the village of Layou is swallowed up in sleep and sea breeze. Tessa lays on her living room couch swiping indolently through the gallery on her phone. She lingers for a while on one photo in particular, from her nineteenth birthday exactly one year ago today. This is certainly not how she had envisioned herself spending her twentieth birthday, indoors, and alone as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. It has been twenty-seven days since the State of Emergency was declared in Dominica – twenty-seven days since she has last seen him. She glides

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