writing Archives | midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/tag/writing/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:27:00 +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 writing Archives | midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/tag/writing/ 32 32 153713158 To quote Erykah Badu: “I am an artist and I’m sensitive about my ish…” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/to-quote-erykah-badu/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:27:00 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77113 Virginia Woolf once said: Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.   // In fifth grade, I had a crush on Kevin O’Halloran. He was freckled, with hazel eyes and a gelled up cowlick. He had a shaky voice; which I can’t describe because I don’t think he has ever talked to me. At least, not on purpose. In retrospect, Kevin was every syllable of the word: unremarkable. But back then, he had two things going for him. One: he was white. Which

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]]> 77113 A City Girl On Country Time https://www.midnightandindigo.com/city-girl-country-time/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:00:07 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=76706 We’re alone, Patrick and I, in a three-story house an hour outside of Naples, Italy. In Tufo, Italy. It took us one taxi and two buses to get here. We don’t date, we don’t have sex either, but it’s just us two and myself, alone, in the honeymoon suite. Last night I asked Patrick, “Do you enjoy sleeping in the basement, alone?” He replied, “Yes, it’s like my room.” I asked because I was afraid of sleeping alone on the second floor, the two other rooms unoccupied. Patrick sleeps or writes, and I clean or shower or read or write

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