Gray's 100-word story for June 20, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 20, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The Ren Faire is the one place some people can be themselves. Myrna runs a booth selling 'household supplies' to women pretending to be witches pretending to be housewives. Smudge sticks, crystals, under-the-table tarot decks which are entirely above-board except when you're pretending they're not. She gets a real kick out of it; it's all she does, hauling her pack full of 'charms' and 'healing herbs' and curse dolls in her pack, taking trains and buses across the country. The fake witches have no idea they're paying Myrna to take their souls. It's way easier than it used to be.

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