Something Wicked

By S. K. Gregory

Something Wicked this way comes...

Venture into the dark world of witches with this spellbinding collection of stories.

A witch with the gift of second sight, finds himself in a predicament he may not be able to escape from.

What would you do for $5 million? When a demon offers one witch the chance to fix all her problems, it comes at a price. She must give him a child.

Three teenage girls are lured to the dark side by a mysterious boy. What secrets is he hiding? And what does he have planned for them?

Men flock to Circe, but she knows exactly how to deal with them. When a woman comes to her, seeking revenge against her lover, Circe finds herself in deep trouble.

You've heard of Morgana, now meet her mother. Darkness runs through her veins.

Featuring an exclusive short story from Kat Gracey, An Ill Wind.

A mysterious woman shows up on Daniel's doorstep, but is she all that she seems?

Contains 18+ content.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. K. Gregory
• Release date: Oct 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393211389

S. K. Gregory

S. K. Gregory is the author of the Daemon Persuasion series and a collection of urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. In her spare time she love to read and offers reviews for indie authors through her site.

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Something Wicked

A Collection of Dark Witch Tales

Copyright © 2019 S. K. Gregory

All Rights Reserved

Contents

Second Sight

Demon Spawn

The Power of Three

Hexing Beast

Evaine

An Ill Wind By Kat Gracey

Foreword

The Something Wicked Collection is something I have wanted to write for a while. I have a lot of witch-based ideas, stories of witches who tread the line of good versus evil or cross it completely. Each story can be read as a standalone, but some are lead-ins to full length books that I will be publishing in the next year.

Second Sight is the opening to a much longer story for Alex. It was first featured on the Season of the Witch blog event two years ago. A male witch with the power to siphon magic from others, Alex is an outcast, but he makes a home for himself in New Orleans, until a mystery woman leads him astray.

Demon Spawn is a prequel to a future book. Marlena is offered five million dollars to carry a baby for a demon. Will she take the deal?

The Power of Three features three teenage girls who find themselves captivated by Cal, a mysterious stranger they meet in an abandoned house. But Cal is using them to try and escape his prison.

Hexing Beast is a story from the Gods of Chaos: Myths and Monsters collection, which will also feature some more familiar faces from Greek myth such as Medusa. In this story, Circe is living in the modern day, still hexing men and turning them into pigs. When Jo shows up, Circe is sure she is up to something, but what?

Evaine tells the story of Morgana’s mother, acting as a prequel to the Gates of Avalon series. Evaine has an affair with a Fey, using him to try and get into Avalon. Will she succeed.

Kat Gracey has included her story An Ill Wind for your enjoyment too. When a strange woman shows up on Daniel’s doorstep, he assumes she is an old classmate, but she has her own reasons for being there.

Second Sight

You’re an abomination. A freak. And you’re no son of mine.

Those were the last words my father said to me before he threw me out of the house. Banished. Exiled. My whole family turned their back on me. I was only sixteen at the time, never had a job, no chance to finish school, and suddenly I was living on the streets.

It was hell on earth. Every night I wondered if I would wake up in the morning or freeze to death in the night. On my dark days, I admit sometimes I hoped I wouldn’t wake up. It wasn’t a life; it was an existence.

At night, I would lie in whatever hole I could find, shivering, stomach growling after not eating in days, and wonder if I was cursed. They say that don’t they? The seventh son of the seventh son is cursed, or unlucky, or a witch.

They got the witch part right, but my whole family are witches. My brothers all developed their powers early. A late bloomer, no one questioned it at first.

The runt of the litter, last to everything. That was the running joke in the family. Time went on though, and it stopped being funny. Fifteen was the latest anyone had ever heard of someone reaching before their powers manifested. I passed that milestone and still nothing.

I would catch Dad staring at me, a look of disappointment on his face. Every day I would practise spells, incantations, even levitating, although that particular power didn’t run in our family, but it didn’t hurt to try. Nothing worked.

My sixteenth birthday came, and the others tried to act like everything was okay, but not Dad. He sat in the corner of the room, refusing to sing happy birthday and turning his nose up at the cake, which I’ve never seen him do before.

Mom was over the top, as usual. Fussing and rushing around, making sure everyone had a drink. All the while, Dad had glass after glass of whiskey.

A few hours passed; the guests all went home. Mom kept telling Dad to go up to bed, but he refused. He seemed determined to finish the bottle of Jack.

I was helping Mom clear up, when I made the mistake of lifting one of Dad’s empty glasses.

Leave it, he growled.

I moved my hand from the glass and picked up some