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Breaking Spells

Love Gone Wrong

Carol Anne Shaw
2 min readJan 30, 2024
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Good witches don’t dabble in the dark stuff

Conjure up any of that hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo, and you can start counting the minutes until you get it right back in your face, full circle, times three

That whole Karma thing

You just don’t fuck with it

Lulu Beck is a witch, albeit a bad one

While her heart is in the right place, her skills are crap

Her latest debacle involved Steve Myers, down at Myers & Tate Autobody

Lulu likes Steve (most people in Echo Falls do), but he was lonely, and she figured he needed some female companionship

So she mixed up a potion of rose petals and sage oil and this and that, and solar brewed it for 7 days

On day 8, she walked widdershins around her Home Depot concrete bird bath, chanting:
By the light of moon waxing, I brew this tea to make Liesel Doberlin desire our Steve.”

A nice gesture, even though Liesel, who works down at the local thrift store, is a bitter, esthetically challenged woman with chronic halitosis and a mouth like a stuck zipper

Alas, The spell was flawed

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Carol Anne Shaw
Carol Anne Shaw

Written by Carol Anne Shaw

Writer & audiobook narrator. Author of three award-winning books for mg readers (Ronsdale Press) & four indie-pubbed novels for young adults. Vancouver Isle, BC

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