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  • 2025-06-26

    Olive Framley Entry 19, 26th June.

    Olive Framley Entry 19, 26th June.

    Dear Talia, Please entirely disregard the previous letter – I turned to despair prematurely and I have returned to Barkmouth a hero. Lucy wasn’t lost, she was invisible! It turned out the haunting wasn’t a ghost, it was an actual invisible man. A travelling salesman, of all things! Lucy had tried to talk to him,… Continue reading

    Fiction, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-25

    Lucy Skylark Entry 20, 25th June.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 20, 25th June.

    You’ll know by now, I hope, that there was some drama with trying to deal with the problems at The Green Dragon Inn, and also that I am not lost, cursed or worse! Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, haunting, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, mob, reporters, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-23

    Olive Framley Entry 18, 23rd June.

    Olive Framley Entry 18, 23rd June.

    Dear Talia, I’m sure you must know by now that everything went wrong. We all went looking for the mystery presence that night and at some point, Lucy vanished. And not long after that, Teddy started mumbling some nonsense about a job and vanished too. Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-21

    TEEN MISSING IN MAGICAL MISDEMEANOUR 21st June

    TEEN MISSING IN MAGICAL MISDEMEANOUR 21st June

    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, Olive Framley, The Green Dragon
    article, disappearance, fantasy, Fiction, ghost, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, news, pub, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-19

    Olive Framley Entry 17, 19th June.

    Olive Framley Entry 17, 19th June.

    Lucy came by this morning 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. You absolutely cannot tell Daddy that we went there on a bus, Talia. Honestly, it rattled like Daddy’s old Land Rover,… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-18

    Lucy Skylark Entry 19, 18th June.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 19, 18th June.

    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, Olive Framley, Teddy, The Green Dragon
    fantasy, Fiction, ghost, pub, writing
  • 2025-06-13

    Olive Framley Entry 16, 13th June

    Olive Framley Entry 16, 13th June

    I am pleased to report that “The Amazing Olive” was a success! True, there were one or two little swots who saw through some of the card trick. But they loved it when I made Maksym fly. Continue reading

    Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Maksym, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Pompom, Uncategorized
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-09

    Olive Framley Entry 15, 9th June

    Olive Framley Entry 15, 9th June

    Dear Talia, I needed some new clothes last week and so I took the train into Swalebeck, which has some more up-market shops, and I ended up spending what was left of my fortune-telling money on a new suit and some decent shoes. I still have my very paltry allowance, but of course now I… Continue reading

    Fiction, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Maksym, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Pompom, The Amazing Olive, Uncategorized
    cat, fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, party entertainer, witch, writing
  • 2025-06-07

    Lucy Skylark Entry 18, 7th June.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 18, 7th June.

    Dear Vera, It was so good to see you last week. I’m sorry I was so quiet – Teddy says he really enjoyed meeting you though. Mum and Dad seemed so pleased to have me back… At first. And I thought they’d be interested to hear my adventures, hear about Suki, Maksym, Bea and Olive,… Continue reading

    Fiction, Ice cream place, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Suniya, Teddy
  • 2025-05-31

    Olive Framley Entry 14, 31st May.

    Olive Framley Entry 14, 31st May.

    Firenze did something he’s never done before… He brought Maksym with him on one of his magical portal journeys! Maksym didn’t even seem surprised – he’d spotted Firenze and followed him. He said that he’d told his father he’d gone to his friend’s to play, in the same block where he lives… but he’d snuck… Continue reading

    Fiction, Firenze, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Maksym, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters, Pompom
    cat, fantasy, Fiction, kitten, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
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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
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