The Retreat

by Mark Edwards

‘Witches were just clever women that men couldn’t tame, weren’t they? Women who wouldn’t conform.

When there’s been this thing you’ve wanted your whole life, and you think: if this happens, everything will be perfect, I’ll be happy at last . . . You convince yourself it will fix you. And then it happens.’ ‘And it doesn’t fix you.’ ‘No. I wasn’t any happier.