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Diary of a Lost Witch
by Reut Barak
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GENRE: Fantasy Blog
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BLURB:
Molly
is in trouble. Running away from home to escape the dangers of her coven, she
ends up in Edinburgh at a time of Corona. Homeless and running for her life,
she must find a new coven and get the help she needs to protect herself, or she
is not going to make it back.
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EXCERPT THREE:
April 14
Yesterday,
I finally met another witch.
Her
name is Gemma. She’d just graduated from nursing school and was volunteering to
help out with testing patients for the virus.
I
had seen her on the street, falling on her knee, while walking a dog, and her
body magically heal the wound. I walked to her to ask if she was alright,
coming close, but still pretending to keep that two meter distance.
“Just
a scratch,” she assured me, and got up without help.
The
dog was being difficult and kept pulling even when she was still on the ground.
I offered to help and take the leash, but she shook her head. He was a friend’s
dog, but they were self-isolating so he was stuck at home all day. She was
trying to show patience.
I
told her that we had a dog back home and that she was also finding it
difficult. She asked where I was from and the conversation flowed from there.
We
must have walked together for about half an hour before I felt she could be
trusted. I was not about to make the same mistake twice.
She
told me that there were many witches in the city, some solitary and others
belonging to covens. Luckily for me, she was one of the later, and she invited
me to the next coven meeting. We exchanged numbers.
I
still couldn’t sleep right at night. Even after that ray of hope.
There
was no accommodation anywhere and I must have checked five times. Apartments
were difficult too. I could forge the documents for the lease, but I would
still have to open a real bank account, and get some sort of job, which was
dangerous, because I might have to expose my true identity. Even to Gemma, I
gave a different last name. Wood, instead of Evans.
I
ended up back in the forest under Arthur’s Seat, in my tent spell, that failed
to really make me feel safe, despite the conjured mattress and warmth.
I
hate being homeless.
In
the morning, I felt I needed to move my legs, after all those nights of
troubled sleep. I went up Carlton Hill. That place in the photos where people
go to get a view of the whole city.
A
message from my moms, from last night, reminded me of the dangers I had ran
away from. It came from Sally, my birth-mother, who was usually high spirited,
and perhaps one of the happiest people I’d known in my life. But from the tone
of her note I could tell that she was worried.
Two
witches from May’s coven had been seen outside the house. When my mom, Joe,
came out to talk with them they left a message for me. Alice wanted to speak
with me. Urgently.
“Keep
safe,” was the end of Sally’s message.
I
had promised myself that I wouldn’t cry, but the past few days had been so
difficult.
When
I reached the top and looked down at this beautiful city, the frustration, the
fear and the exhaustion of the past few days hit me like a boomerang, and I
couldn’t stop the tears anymore.
Molly
Evans
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AUTHOR BIO:
Following
a short stint in the military, Reut
graduated as a trained Opera Singer from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and
Dance, and then worked in Berlin, singing church music by Mozart, Haydn and
Bach. While arranging concerts in the city and managing artists, she discovered
her passion for business. She joined fellow entrepreneurs in the 2013-2014
class at the University of Oxford, with a scholarship to study business (MBA),
where she founds that creativity goes far beyond art. She later had a taste of
corporate life, seeing the inside workings of some of the world’s largest
finance, energy and manufacturing companies, and wrote for National Geographic.
Leaving the world of corporate drama behind, she now pursues her dreams of
becoming a fiction novelist, a self-published vegan author, blogger and
youtuber. She first arrived in Scotland as a hiker, eager to explore the
mysterious highlands, where she got her inspiration for her books and blogs.
Well,
no not really… The true story is:
Once
upon a time…
Reut
was born in Camelot in the year 1201, following the famous explosion of the
northern dragon tower. She has a degree in fantasy and science fiction from the
University of Atlantis and this record can be found in the central library, now
twenty thousand leagues under the sea. She likes phoenix riding, dragon
fighting and painting the roses red. And Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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Reut ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new blog diary and good luck on the tour! :)
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