The Bane Witch

by Ava Morgyn

that. A very little poison can do a world of good. It’s all about how you apply it.”

She smiles in the soft light. “We don’t fear men in this house,” she tells me. “Men fear us.”

But where is your judgment for the men who rape and kill and hit and take? Who barricade themselves behind money and power and a culture that protects them, champions their aggression and narcissism? You are sick with poison, but it’s not ours, it’s theirs. It spreads in you even now, tainting your self-image, the way you look at everything,