List: Darkness and Love | Curated by Scarlet Ibis James 🦩 | Medium

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

Dec 20, 2024

4 stories

Darkness and Love

It is a series of fictional tales that can stand on their own but are better together.

In

Microcosm

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

In the Stillness of That Moment

The wind carries the past.

Dec 20, 2024

Imagine the same library setting, but instead of the well-known Victorian figure, there is Elena. She sits confidently in a large, leather-bound chair with subtle brass nail detailing. Elena is in her early fifties, radiant and poised, her skin a rich mahogany that the late afternoon light warms into golden tones. She wears a knee-length wrap dress of deep emerald green, tailored at the waist, with a quietly elegant black scarf draped over her shoulders. Her hair, a halo of silver-streaked curls

Dec 20, 2024

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The Fiction Writer’s Den

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Love Meets Mystery

Their love story begins at Lenox Mall, Atlanta, GA.

Oct 22, 2024

An image of the protagonist, Ruth, a confident Black woman in her late twenties with smooth, brown skin and natural curls falling just past her shoulders. She stands in the middle of a modern, upscale mall, the ambient lighting casting a soft glow on her.

Oct 22, 2024

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The Pub

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

Reflections of Dependence

When family is the shadow she’s under.

Oct 28, 2024

A portrait of an African American woman with natural hair, looking at the camera in front of her mother’s reflection on glass, both dressed elegantly. The background is blurred to emphasize their faces and expressions.

Oct 28, 2024

In

Blue Pencils

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

Affirmation Dispels Darkness

Ruth confronts her (self) dependence.

Oct 30, 2024

a black woman is dreaming. She is standing in a strange mall filled with endless corridors, brown and black mannequins silently watching her every move. darker aura, creepy lighting

Oct 30, 2024

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

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I am a writer, reader, essayist, published author and editor. https://www.scarletibisjames.com.

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