Good story.
I like the fact that it takes place in Athens, Ohio, and that the witches are not conventional. The title makes you think that it would be in Greece, maybe in Ancient Greece, and that the witches would be of the kind that sacrifices babies or something. But I guess that being a diner owner is just the way witches are in Athens, OH. I don't know if that was the intent of the author, but art produces different effects on different people.
It reminded me that namesake cities are common in the U.S. Fun fact: there 18 cities in the U.S. called "Athens", and 23 cities called "Paris". Ohio alone has Dublin, Milan, and two (two!) Romes. You can visit the whole world inside the 50 states. You can hunt deer and drink tea while talking with a thick accent in London, Kentucky; have a taste of Spain's heat in Madrid, New Mexico; or perhaps you should go to St. Petersbourg, Florida, a town that has the biggest Salvador Dalí collection in the world, for some mysterious reason.
Now, about the story itself. There's pretty much no conflict in the first chapter, and that would normally be a downer for me, but it was interesting enough to keep listening. I found it hard to identify the sisters, for I couldn't see any traits that were memorable. They also didn't have names, which made it a little more difficult. Despite all that, it's a good rivalry between sisters to see who has the better magic,
and one ends up bewitching the other
I just have these minor issues. The story itself is very self-contained, reminded a lot of
My country is a Ghost, by Eugenia Triantafyllou. Like some other stories I read here on Escape Artists, this seems to be a love letter to one's hometown (I don't know if the author lived there though). I googled and saw that Athens (the one in Ohio!) is pretty much just students and diners. It's also a very poor town by the way, with more than 30% of residents being below poverty line; and Ohio is also known to be a precarious state with an opioid crisis, but I didn't see that in the story. That doesn't mean that these issues should've been featured though. I'm not gonna say how the story should've been written. Just trying to add something to the discussion.
And these are my two cents.