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Title: PC634: When I Was a Witch
Post by: Ocicat on July 08, 2020, 05:57:44 AM
PodCastle 634: When I Was a Witch (https://podcastle.org/2020/07/07/podcastle-634-when-i-was-a-witch/)

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (https://podcastle.org/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman/)
Narrator: Anaea Lay (https://podcastle.org/people/anaea-lay/)
Host: Kitty Sarkozy (https://podcastle.org/people/kitty-sarkozy/)
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh (https://podcastle.org/people/peter-behravesh/)

Originally published in Gilman’s collection When I Was a Witch and reprinted in Fantasy Magazine. This story is in the public domain.

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Show Notes
Rated PG.



If I had understood the terms of that one-sided contract with Satan, the Time of Witching would have lasted longer — you may be sure of that. But how was I to tell? It just happened and has never happened again, though I’ve tried the same preliminaries as far as I could control them.

The thing began all of a sudden, one October midnight — the 30th, to be exact. It had been hot, really hot, all day, and was sultry and thunderous in the evening; no air stirring, and the whole house stewing
with that ill-advised activity which always seems to move the steam radiator when it isn’t wanted.

I was in a state of simmering rage — hot enough, even without the weather and the furnace — and I went up on the roof to cool off. A top-floor apartment has that advantage, among others — you can take a walk without the mediation of an elevator boy!




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