Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

by Grady Hendrix

“You’ll look like this one day,” she said. “They hate us enough. Don’t hate yourselves, too.”

“What do you think librarians do?” she asked. “Check out books? Certainly not. We deliver knowledge to those who need it,

Witches will catch you when you fall, carry you when you are tired, heal you when you are broken.

are you a woman who has had a baby, who has been betrayed and abandoned? Who has seen the cruel ways of this world? None of us are who we were, not a year ago, not a week ago, not one minute ago. In five years I guarantee you won’t recognize yourself now.”

change you into whatever they need you to be. Choose for yourself. For once in your life!”

all these normal people who’d never have to make these choices.

I’m scared of NOTHING!” Blood slabbered down her chest as Fern stood and laughed at the witches. After everything she’d been through, after she’d created life, after they had taken her child, did they really think she was scared of something as small as their God?

because it is in failure that you learn anything useful, about the world or about yourself.