The Once and Future Witches

by Alix E. Harrow

a perfectly ordinary piece of embroidery: a crooked house framed by a pair of dark trees, with three lumpy women standing in the foreground beside a scattering of animals. Clumsy letters run across the top: “Workd by Polly Pekkala in The Twelfth Year of her Age, 1782.”

this is a real piece of embroidery recovered from the actual salem! i changed the named of the girl to Pekkala, because i like alliteration, and because Serafina Pekkala remains one of fantasy's best witches.