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  • 2026-07-29

    A Day In The Life of A Teenage Witch

    Is the Magical Year a fad that has had its day, or still a necessary coming-of-age ritual for an adolescent magic-user? Derringer Grant has gone to Barkmouth to find out. Continue reading

    Derringer Grant, Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-28

    Off the Record

    Dear Vera, You’d better keep your eye out for Supernatural News this week. I wish I could tell you what sort of article to expect, but I’ll tell you what happened from my point of view! Continue reading

    Derringer Grant, Fiction, Firenze, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Pompom, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-23

    I’ll see you in your dreams

    Please entirely disregard the previous letter – I turned to despair prematurely and I have returned to Barkmouth a hero. Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-21

    Into the Open

    I took a deep breath. I didn’t like being such a scaredy-cat, Vera. I addressed the room. “Whoever you are, we’re not here to hurt you. It’s just that you’re scaring the people who live here. Please come out and maybe we can help you.” And I felt a cold hand on mine. Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-16

    In the Face of Failure

    I’m sure you must know by now that everything went wrong in our attempts to solve the Green Dragon haunting. We all went looking for the mystery presence that night and at some point, Lucy vanished. And not long after that, Teddy – who I thought would surely be able to help, as our friendly… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing, life, Fiction, fantasy, magic, witch
  • 2026-07-14

    TEEN MISSING IN MAGICAL MISDEMEANOUR

    TEEN MISSING IN MAGICAL MISDEMEANOUR

    In further tragic evidence of the impact of the magical agenda, a sixteen year old girl has vanished from the town of St Bernice’s Field. Juvenile witch Lucy Skylark, sixteen, visited The Green Dragon Inn accompanied by another so-called witch-in-training and, after neighbours reported disturbing sounds in the night, has not been seen since midnight… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-09

    A Haunting to Uncover

    Lucy and I are away on some serious witch business! She came at the weekend with a letter from her mentor, Vera. She said that there’s been some strange activity – sounded like a haunting, or some sort of spirit infestation, at a pub. She thought this would take two witches – so we’re both… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-07-07

    A mission from a mentor

    I was hoping you might be able to help me with an unusual errand. A friend in St Bernice’s Field runs an old fashioned pub called The Green Dragon Inn and they’ve been bothered by some strange behaviour. There has been some clattering in the night, some objects have gone missing only to reappear in… Continue reading

    Fiction, Letter from Vera, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Teddy, The Green Dragon
  • 2026-07-02

    Witchy Nostalgia

    I am pleased to report that my performance as “The Amazing Olive” was a success! The children’s birthday party loved us. True, there were one or two little swots who saw through some of the card tricks – I couldn’t make all of them real magic. But they loved it when I made Maksym fly. Continue reading

    Fiction, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Maksym, New edition, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2026-06-30

    A Job Done Too Well

    Oh goodness, do you remember my magical barrier net that I put in place at the Fae Cinema? I assumed that was the end of the matter as I’d seen nothing out of the ordinary there since. In fact, I was really pleased with that as a bit of magical work – it felt much… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Cinema, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, New edition, Teddy
    magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing, life, Fiction, fantasy, magic, ghost, witch
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I am a writer and artist from the UK.
I’m currently posting fictional character letters written from prompts from Sky Latshaw’s Magical Year of a Teenage Witch
https://swashtalk.itch.io/the-magical-year-of-a-teenage-witch

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