Presenting A Witch Without Magic by Author Larisa Walk

When her neighbors accuse Belladonna of Satanism and making them age years to   days, she must find who is behind it or face a modern day witch hunt. Her mysterious enemy knows where to strike to cause the most damage: Belladonna's   only friend is losing his life-force; the garden that feeds her is dying; and   her house ghost goes poltergeist. To save her neighbors and friends and prove   her innocence, she must travel to the Otherworld where butterflies have razor   wings and where her worst fears will come to life.

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EXCERPT!

The mob on the other side of the wrought iron  fence wore no tri-cornered hats or starched bonnets.  They didn’t brandish pitchforks or flaming torches.   Hell, they didn’t even bring a preacher to drive the Devil out.  Still, they had come to flush out a  witch and the witch was me.

They were thirty all together, gathered outside  my gate under the two California live oaks that shade the sidewalk in
midday.  I had to squint into the  still hot mid-October sun to study their unfamiliar faces.   The mob included several dwarves.   The youngest dwarf must have been in her forties, a tiny woman that for  some reason wore a yellow, red and blue Snow White dress with an appliquéd  picture of Snow White on the chest.   She didn’t look like a typical dwarf: no classically high forehead and  her arms and legs were proportionate.   She was holding a fluffy purple teddy bear by a front paw and sucking her  thumb.

In the sun my forehead sweated under the straw  hat.  A mocking bird’s harsh  chirrup burst from the oak on the right, piercing as a car horn.  I flinched.

 I don’t much like or trust people in large groups  - doing time in Greenville State Prison for Women had taught me that.  In prison the exercise yard is the most  dangerous place to be: too many inmates in one area, too many chances to be  stabbed with a shiv made from a sharpened toothbrush handle or from melted and  hardened Styrofoam cups.

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Larisa Walk, a native Russian, lives in California with her  husband and two formerly homeless cats. She writes paranormal fiction that is  more often than not populated by characters from the Russian fairy world.  Her
short fiction appeared in several anthologies and magazines. She has published a  historic fantasy novel, A Handful of Earth, and a modern paranormal novel, A  Witch Without Magic. You can read her quirky blogs at: http://www.larisawalk.com

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