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.

Finally, Guy turned to her and his eyes were full of tears and he said, “How could you do this to me?”

Fern surrendered to the Home. It was a machine that took in wayward girls and put out adoptable babies, and it operated according to one principle: a strict schedule disciplined lazy minds.

Sometimes she’d burst into tears contemplating the loneliness of Bigfoot.

Relatable