The Year of the Witching

by Alexis Henderson

The woman is a cunning creature. Made in the likeness of her Mother, she is at once the creator and the destroyer. She is kind until she is cruel, meek until she is merciless.

This was the great shame of Bethel: complacency and complicity that were responsible for the deaths of generations of girls. It was the sickness that placed the pride of men before the innocents they were sworn to protect. It was a structure that exploited the weakest among them for the benefit of those born to power.

“Good people don’t bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.”

“Witch. Whore. Beast. Sinner. Bitch. Mother-spawn.”

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