Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

by Grady Hendrix

You see, we’d been taught that the devil was the worst thing in the world, but we were too young to understand that there were worse things than the devil. We were too young to understand that their job was to convince us that the most natural thing in the world was evil, and the most evil thing in the world was natural.

It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.