A Black woman performs a strange ritual in a public space. A house has protected its beloved owner for decades. It knows better than most, that things that die don’t necessarily stay dead. A young man enters a small, mysterious Black town in 1955 Florida. A shape-shifting being experiences decades of American history. The proprietress of a spiritual supply store receives a visitor. Immortal custodians circle Earth on a spaceship, in which a singer prepares for her longest tour yet. A man wakes to find the world caught in an eternal slumber. Is he its only conscious survivor?
A woman connects with her ancestors during a storm. After the aunt who raised her disappears, a girl builds a person from river mud to cut through her loneliness. A homeowner hosts a repast for her husband. A woman has a strange condition-whenever she’s near a dead body, she coughs up a red flower. Another buys the home of her childhood dreams and realizes it has dreams of its own. A neighborhood family gives birth to girl butterflies.
…and many more stories.
midnight & indigo celebrates Black women writers with the second Speculative fiction issue of their literary journal. From haunted houses to spaceships, old worlds to new phenomena, nineteen emerging and established Black storytellers share tales of fear and discovery, redemption, and resistance.
Contributors include: Ugochi Agoawike, Leah Andelsmith, Tara Baldridge, Erin Brown, Lynn Brown, Ozzie M. Gartrell, Wednesday Herron, Davida Kilgore, Juliana Lamy, Jesica Lovelace, Ellen McBarnette, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Chantel Melendez, Frances Ogamba, Jasmyne K. Rogers, Wendy Shaia, Sama Sherman, Bria Strothers, and Desirée Winns.
About the Author
Ianna A. Small is the founder of midnight & indigo Publishing and creator of midnight & indigo, a literary platform dedicated to short stories and narrative essays by Black women writers. m&i is her love letter to women like herself, who long to reach the pinnacle of their purpose. She dreams of one day running midnight & indigo from a lounge chair overlooking the archipelagos of Santorini.
