#witchlit

The light feels different after the solstice.

The longest day has passed, but the light still lingers — golden and thick as honey where it falls through the lace curtains. My reading nook, just beside the window, has shifted slightly since the solstice. The books have grown softer in tone, the teacups linger longer, and everything smells faintly of lavender and old pages.

On the nightstand:

A worn copy of The Night Circus, spine creased with affection

A pressed petal journal, tucked beneath a small stack of tea-stained letters

A bottle labeled moonlight (really: glitter, rosemary, and memory)

A beeswax candle, burnt low — I light it before reading anything sacred

I’ve draped a light scarf over the lamp to dim the glow — just enough to blur the edges of the room and let the stories speak louder. There’s rosemary in the window, for courage. A single moth-wing charm tucked into my current bookmark.

This is the season for slow enchantments. For books that whisper in silver. For reading with bare feet against cool floorboards while the sun dips low and the shadows stretch like ribbon.

If you visited, I’d make you lavender and vanilla tea, and let you choose a book from the shelf — any book that glows when you touch it.

🔮🕯️🍂 SHORT STORY SERIES 🍂🕯️🔮

🧙 immortal witches

🌄 eventual portal fantasy

👨‍❤️‍👨 true love

🏹 magic

🗡️ revenge

👑 evil faeries

🥀 curses

Ok y'all, time for a desperate plea. I have one month left until I lose my income and it's put the future of my Witchlit project in jeopardy. There's no way I will be able to afford to cover the $150 commission cost every month. I only need $78 more/month on Patreon to save it! 

What is Witchlit? It's a short story project where I write a new piece of witchy fiction and commission a different artist every month. It has meant so much to be able to spread around funds to other creatives and watch this project blossom for its diversity of art. Here are the pieces I’ve commissioned so far. All episodes are free to read, just click the link on the bold text.

Episode One was about Tamar, a "weaver" with a dark past whose secret is just waiting to be discovered. This piece features a sapphic relationship. Art by the incredible ronnalonzo on Twitter.

Episode Two was illustrated lovingly by Succreart on Twitter. This one centers around the town of Einfeld and Tante Ida, its resident witch, who may or may not have the power to turn people into vegetables.  Imagine Strega Nona, but if Strega Nona might cut somebody.

Episode Three centered Hugh, a widower/father slowly coming to terms that he's fallen in love with the apothecary next door. The setting is a country on the brink of war and economic depression that has revived a lust for witch hunts. The talented franlangleyart on Twitter.

Episode Four is the latest and is incredibly important to me. It's about Margot, a 13yo queer girl with harm ocd who learns more about herself and her magic than she could have anticipated by befriending another young girl with contamination ocd. amirror_png on Twitter blew me away with this one.

I hope by now it's clear why I so desperately want this project to survive. It's been a way to explore magical stories that feature a diverse array of what it means to be a witch. I can't express how much joy it has brought me or how it would mean the world to continue it. At $1/month you get access to everything, EVERYTHING I post. Podcasts, Ongoing manuscripts like my LGBTQ+ Fairytale retellings, etc.

Please share, it is so hard for me to reach new readers. :’) 

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Blessed Samhain to all of you in the Northern hemisphere, and Beltane blessings to those of us here in the south.

Wisdom of serpent be yours,

Wisdom of raven be yours,

Wisdom of valiant eagle.

Voice of swan be yours,

Voice of honey be yours,

Voice of the spirits whisper.

Bounty of the sea be yours,

Bounty of land be yours,

Bounty of the god's virtues.