Witch’s Familiar
Witch’s Familiar & Whimsical Stories is out as a trade paperback!
In 1820s London, Judith’s mother is dying of consumption, and Judith toils for a milliner. A talking cat appears asking for Judith’s assistance and agrees to make a deal with Judith: if the girl helps the cat go home and save the witch with whom she lives, the witch will help Judith save her mother’s life.
The serialized ebook website Wormhole Electric published an earlier draft of Witch’s Familiar and included it in The Wormhole Electric Anthology (2011).
My fantasy novella Witch’s Familiar has had a long journey. It began as a short story back in the 1980s. I revised it as a university student and shared it with a fiction writing class. Since then, I expanded it into a novella, and its original publication was serialization as an e-book on the website Wormhole Electric… followed by The Wormhole Electric Anthology, which was an e-book on Smashwords in 2012. Today the revised and expanded edition is a trade paperback that includes short fantasy stories: Witch’s Familiar & Whimsical Stories. Fortunately, it doesn’t usually take me forty years to complete a book — Witch’s Familiar is an exception. Some stories need to be mulled and developed longer than others.
Witch’s Familiar & Whimsical Stories is available in trade paperback and e-book: