The Witch of Little Italy
“As Elly grew more pregnant she also grew wiser with Amore wisdom. Mimi and the aunts showed her more and more of Margaret Green’s ways. Protection jars were a new favorite of Elly’s. “I wish it was summer already,” she said, adding a cat’s eye marble to a mason jar already full of cobwebs and sage then screwing the metal cap shut. She placed it among the others on an already crowded table. Anthony would have to reach and put them over the doorframes later. “I hate being pregnant,” she said. “I ...can’t even learn the magic right. And you won’t let me on stepladders to put these things up properly.”
“Oh, come now…” cooed Mimi from the kitchen where she was frying thick pieces of steak to put together with tomatoes and red onion on focaccia bread. It was Elly’s newest craving. “It’s your full-of-life time. Don’t throw it away.”
“But I feel so ugly. And I miss my mother.”
Elly hadn’t spoken to her mother since Christmas Eve, and it was already April.MoreLess
“Oh, come now…” cooed Mimi from the kitchen where she was frying thick pieces of steak to put together with tomatoes and red onion on focaccia bread. It was Elly’s newest craving. “It’s your full-of-life time. Don’t throw it away.”
“But I feel so ugly. And I miss my mother.”
Elly hadn’t spoken to her mother since Christmas Eve, and it was already April.MoreLess
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