Suggestions

  • Opinion
  • Business
  • Books
  • Interview
  • Politics
  • Travel
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Why I Started midnight & indigo
    • Contact Us
  • Current Issue
  • SHORT STORIES
  • Essays
  • Speculative/Horror
  • Store
  • Write for Us

Mobile Logo

Latest

ESSAYS/Family

With My Eyes Closed

I need to remind myself that Mama is human, that she is not endless love, and food, and sacrifice. But she makes it hard to do. When I tell you I was raised Catholic, I mean I was raised by Mama: a

Franchesca Peña by Franchesca Peña
Empowerment/ESSAYS/Social issues

Eight Weeks; Two Days

I was ten years old when I first witnessed domestic violence. It was a hot summer day on Hobart street. Children were playing; adults were sitting on their steps and porches just watching the day go by as we often did. Suddenly

Kwanza . by Kwanza .
ESSAYS/Family

Coming of Age as Black Girl: A Letter to My Niece

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde   Dear Amaya, I waited so long for you. Well before your mother told me she was pregnant, I

Shamecca Harris by Shamecca Harris
FICTION | SHORT STORY/journeys

“Emma”

Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from the clock tower on top of the courthouse. His red eyes followed her. No matter how tightly she closed her

Karen Frederick by Karen Frederick
ESSAYS/Family

Couslings: A 23andMe story

“Have you considered writing a book about your life?” It is likely someone has asked you this question, or maybe you have asked someone. Before my ancestry journey, I never thought of my life as interesting enough to manifest into spilled ink,

Savanna Malveaux by Savanna Malveaux
ESSAYS

Granny & Lucille

Today is our long day. We need to drive nearly 200 miles to cross state lines. Mom and I take shifts, plying the other with an endless stream of gritty Community Coffee and sleeves of Donette’s. I notice the minute we cross

Bree McAlister by Bree McAlister
ESSAYS

What the Hell is Regular Black?

“You real fine and you pretty,” the smooth words rolled past his toothpaste commercial level white teeth and thick coffee bean shade lips. Before a girlish smile could plaster itself on my face, he added, “but you ain’t like, regular Black.” “What

Sonia Grace by Sonia Grace
FICTION | SHORT STORY

“Corona & A Side of Chow Mein”

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

Yakima Cuffy by Yakima Cuffy
Previous 1 2 3 4 … 13 Next

About midnight & indigo

midnight & indigo is an independent publisher of short stories and narrative essays by Black women writers. A subsidiary of midnight & indigo Publishing.

Follow us

midnight & indigo: Twenty-Two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers

Latest Contributors

  • Ravynn K. Stringfield

    Ravynn K. Stringfield

    For We Humans Tend to Name Hurricanes
  • Brianca Jay

    Brianca Jay

    “Adeaze”
  • Tatiana .

    Tatiana .

    Upon Visiting My Mother’s Group Home
  • Sibylla Nash

    Sibylla Nash

    “One True Thing”
  • Patricia Martin

    Patricia Martin

    “When the Morning Gathers the Rainbow”

OUR LATEST ISSUE

© 2018-2020 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
midnight & indigo is an independent publisher of short stories and narrative essays by Black women writers. A subsidiary of midnight & indigo Publishing.

  • Home
  • About
  • Shop
  • Privacy
  • FICTION | SHORT STORY
  • Help
  • ESSAYS
  • Terms
  • Submit A Story
  • Contact
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Popular

midnight & indigo literary journal for black writers

“Aida”

The Solomon family car is small and green and was

  • Home
    • About Us
    • Why I Started midnight & indigo
    • Contact Us
  • Current Issue
  • SHORT STORIES
  • Essays
  • Speculative/Horror
  • Store
  • Write for Us