A Witch in Winter
“I lay and read until my eyes scratched with tiredness and the radio had finished the Shipping Forecast and Sailing By. When the reader announced close-down I knew it was time to turn out the lights and – hopefully – to sleep. It was still school the next day, in spite of everything.So I turned out the lights, turned my pillow to the cool side, and lay staring into the blackness, my eyes playing tricks on me with small twinkling lights that existed only in my mind, or as an echo of my reading la...mp.I’d never get used to the darkness of Winter, I thought. In London there’d always been a faint orange glow around my window where the street-lights filtered through, no matter how dense the blackout blind. But here, night was dark. Completely dark, unless there was a moon. I could hear sounds though – not the muted roar of traffic that had always filled my room in London, but the sound of Dad snoring through the wall and the movement of small animals in the woods outside. The screech of an owl and the scream of the small creature it had just caught.MoreLess
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