Summary: Lovers’ Day is good trading for a witch who deals in enchantments, ribbons and dyed flowers. For Mara Hill, it’s long been a holiday of tedious assumptions and painful conversa…
Summary: Lovers' Day is good trading for a witch who deals in enchantments, ribbons and dyed flowers. For Mara Hill, it's long been a holiday of tedious assumptions and painful conversations--once best handled by casting petty curses on annoying customers. This year, when a girl asks about love spells, it may be time to instead channel a little Aunt Rosie.
Theme: A sapphic, allosexual, lithromantic trans witch in a sexual queerplatonic relationship enduring the most amatonormative holiday--in a small town still in desperate want of open conversations about aromanticism.
Word length: 2, 991 words.
This is a sequel to my other story about Mara Hill, The Sorcerous Compendium of Postmortem Query. I wanted to write a piece about Valentine’s Day alienation and Mara’s taking up the conversation on aromanticism, romance and relationships that Aunt Rosie began that night in the cemetery.
I also really like the idea of an aro-spec woman making good money out of society’s need to, every year, engage in a performance of romance.