The Bane Witch
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Read between September 3 - September 11, 2025
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The good days dot my memory like sand dollars on the beach. Prizes to collect, dead as they are.
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A very little poison can do a world of good. It’s all about how you apply it.”
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The feel of the mountains is unmistakable, a quiet, hovering presence, both enormous and close, like being lost and found at the same time.
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It’s deceptive that way, lures you in. They think the toxic ones are all bright red or orange, but it’s the ones that aren’t obvious that are the deadliest.”
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The whole place gave him an uncomfortable feeling, like it was smiling with a bullet behind its teeth.
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smell. I place my nose on top of the Lab’s head and breathe in deep. He smells like comfort.
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“It’s like I always say, a very little poison can do a world of good.”
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The black-throated wail of a loon rides the scattering fog from nearby Crow Lake, and I can picture those red eyes splitting the morning like heralds of hell.
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He laughs. “No. This is just a primer. In another couple of weeks, you’ll think you fell into a Willard Leroy Metcalf painting. It’s like fireworks going off all over these mountains.”
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“And you know what they say—a very little poison can do a world of good,” she adds with a wink.
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Beneath the pain, Myrtle is there. In the words. In the room. She is guiding me still, I realize. She is on my side.
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Between saving him and taking down the Strangler, I’ve left the world a little bit better than I found it.