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  • 2025-04-07

    Olive Framley’s Magical Year

    Olive Framley’s Magical Year

    From: Genevieve Olive Framley-Waters Crag Cottage Barkmouth Dear Talia, I’m settled in at last. This is a funny, pokey little town you’ve sent me to and the cottage definitely needs some renovation. But I’ve set up and I’ve managed to put around some business cards. Continue reading

    Fiction, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Olive Framley, Olive’s letters
    family, fantasy, Fiction, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, romance, witch, writing
  • 2025-04-07

    Lucy Skylark Entry 5, 2nd April.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 5, 2nd April.

    I went out to buy some food for Suki but the best shop for it is this poky little store on the edge of town. I wasn’t there long, but the thunder started while I was paying and by the time I got back down the street it was pouring. There was a bus shelter,… Continue reading

    Bea Furness, Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Teddy
    fae, fairy, fantasy, Fiction, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing
  • 2025-04-06

    Lucy Skylark Entry 4, 31st March.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 4, 31st March.

    Suki’s eggs have hatched! They are dear little chicks, although very noisy, and since she is on her own, Suki needs a lot of help getting enough food for them. Teddy does not like this. He wasn’t fond of Suki anyway, and, now there are a whole brood of chicks too, he is very restless.… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Mrs Webfoot, Suki, Teddy
    birds, coming of age, fantasy, Fiction, ghost, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing
  • 2025-04-06

    Lucy Skylark Entry 3, 24th March.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 3, 24th March.

    Dear Vera, Oh, I feel like such a stupid, silly child. I’ve been here just over three weeks now and everything seemed fine but this morning Suki nudged me awake and said she thought she could hear something. There was a mouse underneath my bed! Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Mrs Webfoot, Suki
    birds, fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing
  • 2025-04-06

    Lucy Skylark Entry 2, 17th March.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 2, 17th March.

    When we got to the cinema, the frontage looked strangely like it had been laying in ruins for at least twenty years and when we walked inside, the ceiling looked like the sky, gloriously blue, and the entrance hall carpet looked more and more like moss, the wood on the seats sprouting twigs and leaves… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Cinema, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Mrs Webfoot, Teddy
    fae, fairy, fantasy, Fiction, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing
  • 2025-04-06

    Lucy Skylark Entry 1, 10th March.

    Lucy Skylark Entry 1, 10th March.

    An unexpected visitor at my window today. A very pretty little bird landed on my window sill. I went to give her some seeds and then she chirped at me rather insistently that, as a witch, I was obligated to give her room and board. Well, I was very surprised to hear a bird talk… Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Mrs Webfoot, Suki, Teddy
    birds, fantasy, Fiction, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, writing
  • 2025-04-06

    Lucy Skylark’s Magical Year

    Lucy Skylark’s Magical Year

    Dear Vera, I’m so glad you agreed to be my mentor. It was very kind of you when you could be enjoying your retirement, so I’m grateful for all your time and advice. I’m so excited to be taking my first steps to becoming a full time witch. Continue reading

    Fiction, Lucy Skylark, Lucy’s letters, Magical Cinema, Magical Year of the Teenage Witch, Mrs Webfoot, Teddy
    fantasy, Fiction, life, magic, magicalyearofateenagewitch, witch, writing
  • 2016-10-30

    Mary of the Glen

    This is a story for Halloween, written for Caitlin, who asked for a scary story. Thanks to Courtney for your support. I didn’t like my grandmother’s house. It was an old farmhouse, cold and stone, and too quiet. I hadn’t wanted to move here – but after my father died, my mother and I had Continue reading

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  • 2016-07-02

    Don’t take bad dating advice

    I once signed up to eHarmony because I was looking for love, not realising that their “matching” is a bit of a con designed to slow down the process and get more of your money (also unlike other dating websites you can’t see people’s messages to you until you’ve paid up, so you have to Continue reading

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  • 2016-07-02

    The Lego Movie: Everything is Awesome (if you’re a boy)

    So I was really really excited about the Lego Movie. I love Lego. I love minifigures. I love all the cool but very expensive sets of things like the Death Star, Tower Bridge and VW campervans. I love pick and mix Lego. I want all the Lego.And the movie was very very Lego. Everything was Continue reading

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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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