Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

by Jessica Spotswood

memories make things grander and more beautiful when you want to think fondly of them.

Back then the ranch was palatial. Their own private world among the sky and mountains, and Rosa Divina was the queen of it all.

Ever since she was little, he’d found a way to silence her, remind her that she was just as ordinary as he was.

But Marimar didn’t want to forget. She wasn’t sure if magic was a curse or a blessing, but it was part of her. As twisted as Rosa Divina was, she survived in a world that didn’t want her and she survived the magic that claimed the lives of her family.

That I was worried anything I’d do or pick would feel small. If I could do righteous magic, I wanted it to be big.