The Witch
Chapter One
Down a long wooded dirt road there lives a witch in a secluded cottage. No, the cottage is
not made of gingerbread. It is made from the bones of animals and humans. Notches are cut into
the bones so that each bone fits snugly into the bone next to it. The bones have been carefully
prepared and lacquered to give the house a gloss in the afternoon sun. The doors and windows
have tiny bones meshed decoratively into each other. Flourishes rise up the sides of the cottage,
leading to a widow's walk of ex-husbands. Some of the husbands were gentle and loving, and
those bones she put to the front so she can always be reminded of them. The cruel, uncaring
husbands' bones are used as connective material, out of sight, covered by a putty-like substance
that is of her own making. Please do not ask what it is made from.
For a witch, she is a pleasant-looking woman with small, brittle bones surrounded by several
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