Tag: trust
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Hallbury Summer – Episode Twenty-Four Thunderhead
The story so far: ‘Wiccan Priestess’ Margaret Farrier tells Joe his brother Michael was rejected by the Hallbury witches, who Margaret insists are harmless herbalists. She denies knowledge of recent desecration in the village. He shows her the package from Violet’s home which she identifies as a love charm. Ned Barker, deceased landlord of ‘The…
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The Coming of Winter
A watery sun set about clearing the glaze of night-time snow, turning tiny icicles along the gutter edges into teardrops, sending little runnels of melt-water through the virgin white into hidden gutters and tinkling drains. By noon it might have been a spring day, for any trace there was of the early chill had gone,…