Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

by Grady Hendrix

Our parents say the War is good. The president says the bomb is good. They tell us factories that poison the earth are good. They say drugs are bad, and burning draft cards is bad, and hippies are bad, and everyone who wants to stop the War and save the planet is bad. It’s brainwashing! Everything they say is bad is good, and everything they say is good is bad. So maybe we should stop marching along like a bunch of sheep and start thinking for ourselves.”

Every price must be paid. So why do the same people pay it, over and over again? Why do the same people always bleed?

Less than three years after we left Florida, Roe was decided and the Homes disappeared in the wave of a magic wand. If we had only gotten pregnant two years later everything would have been different.