A Canadian Literary Journal
Agnes and True: a Canadian online literary journal dedicated to providing a place for the work of Canadian writers, both established and emerging.
ISSN 3111-1971
A Canadian Literary Journal
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We Were Witches
by R.E. Rule
We were witches, Delilah and I. All that summer we braided old thread into charms and walked invisible when barefoot. Once we held hands and chanted until thunder cracked the horizon and rain dug rivers in the dirt. Maybe she’d always been a witch. She’d come to live with Ms. Gray down the street, and I’d always been too embarrassed to ask why. But I’d never known what I was until Delilah came.
It was Delilah who found our magic place. She’d crawled under the cedar that slouched between the cornfield and the Big Wood, and when I followed, she was sitting on the dark earth, her arms spread wide. “This is it,” she said. “Our Sanctum.”
Then I saw it too: a green mossy room lit with golden lights, a stairway of branches leading up to a sky that was always […]
