It’s here – midnight & indigo issue no.14!
Eight Black women writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa share unforgettable short stories and essays that prove memory is anything but still.
In Issue 14, you’ll meet a father searching for home, a daughter uncovering family secrets in the middle of a storm, and a woman who turns a pot of pepper soup into both heartbreak and healing. You’ll travel from Brooklyn’s ever-gentrifying streets to the wide skies of Montana, step inside a body learning to carry pain with grace, and witness the power of names, places, and moments that refuse to be forgotten. And more!
Contributors include:
Morgan Christie, Chandra Marshall, Nyasha Mutunhu, Chiamaka Okike, Rimi Oni, Bria Soleil, Nagueyalti Warren, and Nala Washington.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Short stories
- “When the Leaves Fall” by Morgan Christie
Walk with Mr. Garvey, an older man navigating the early stages of dementia, whose search for something familiar becomes a meditation on father-daughter love. - “Pepper Soup” by Chiamaka Okike
Follows an amateur cook as she reflects on a past relationship with a lover, whom she met at a market and deeply loved despite their differences. After he breaks her heart over a meal, she invites him over for another one. - “Footnote” by Nyasha Mutunhu
Places us inside a home bracing for a Category 4 hurricane, where a daughter discovers a Polaroid that sparks a conversation. - “Namesake” by Nagueyalti Warren
Selma Montgomery wrestles with the weight of her Civil Rights–era name, uncovering her own voice as she questions whether we are more than the expectations we inherit.
Essays
- Under the Big Sky by Chandra Marshall
A needed break from the city and a once intense obsession with bison. She sets off on a quest to finally see some in the wild and reflect on herrelationship with nature, culture, and herself. - Belonging in Gentrification: A Brooklyn Love Story by Bria Soleil
Maps a complicated love for a neighborhood across decades of change, finding belonging in memory as much as place. - You Will Always Be Slightly Broken by Nala Washington
Explores the writer’s life as a mosaic of moments, lyrical, imperfect, radiant in its honesty. - The Hard Year by Rimi Oni
Reflects on chronic physical pain with courage and curiosity, asking how faith and self-understanding shift when tested, and whether we can, or should, begin again.
