“We used to think there was no magic in space. That it stopped at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. Turns out it’s simply thin and wispy, strung out through the stars. But someone with enough power could gather it together and make use of it. Someone like a Witch. Someone like me.”
-from “A Fistfull of Spacetime” part of Tales of Wondrously Wicked Witches (Oct. 2024, T.A.L.E.S.)
“Her dad brought her out a glass of iced tea, setting it on the side table (being sure to use a coaster) then scurrying back inside. He was still weird around her since…well… It had gotten better, though. His discomfort would fade over time. Her mother, for her part, had put a little striped “ALLY” sticker on the back of her fancy white hatchback, just below the large sticker cutout advertising her etsy shop selling quirky vinyl cut paraphernalia for the #momlife set. She wasn’t totally convinced her mom actually understood the full weight of the idea, yet, though, either.”
-from “And So She Returned” part of Meet. Cute. Awkward. For the Queer at Heart (Apr. 2023, Dreampunk Press
“Other women before her have taken this burden—the weight of the whole town, the whole countryside—proclaiming loudly as they went that they demanded remembrance for their sacrifice. And perhaps that was the least recompense they deserved. Fiora didn’t have the mind to think so broadly, though, her shoulders too slim to carry something so heavy so far. But for a house. For a family. For a blackberry bush. She could give herself for those things.”
-from “May You Have Only Boys” part of A Cold Christmas and the Darkest of Winters (Nov. 2021, Cinnabar Moth)
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