Familiar Trouble

By Bonnie Elizabeth

Witches, familiars, and demons clash in this Halloween adventure.

 

Solitary Wiccan practitioner, Leanne, loves Halloween and dressing up for the children. She never loses sight of the fact that it's a holiday. Unfortunately, as she's preparing her late evening spells, someone calls up a demon who lands in her yard.

 

Fortunately for  Leanne, her cat knows more about magic, real magic, than she does. Unfortunately, the young women who have called the demon hate the idea of having to send it back.

 

Even with Bast's help, no one can be assured of success or even living through the conflict!

 

Familiar Trouble is a short Halloween story by Bonnie Elizabeth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing
• Release date: Aug 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536564778

Bonnie Elizabeth

Bonnie Elizabeth could never decide what to do, so she wrote stories about amazing things and sometimes she even finished them. While rejection stung her so badly in person, she spent most of her young life talking to cats and dogs rather than people, she was unusually resilient when it came to rejections on her writing, racking up a good number of them. Floating through a variety of jobs, including veterinary receptionist, cemetery administrator, and finally acupuncturist, she continued to write stories. When the internet came along (yes, she’s old), she started blogging as her cat, because we all know cats don’t notice rejection. Then she started publishing. Bonnie writes in a variety of genres. Her popular Whisper series is contemporary fantasy and her Teenage Fairy Godmother series is written for teens. She has published in a number of anthologies and is working on expanding her writing repertoire. She lives with her husband (who talks less than she does) and her three cats, who always talk back. You can find out more about her books at her publisher, My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing.

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Familiar Trouble is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

Familiar Trouble

My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing

Short Fiction 2016

Copyright © July 2016

Bonnie Elizabeth Koenig

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I COULD TELL LEANNE didn’t have a clue what she was getting into. It had started out as an typical Halloween. She’d decorated our Victorian as she usually did. Fake spider silk hanging all over the front porch, large paper skeleton on the door, spooky noises coming from inside the house—you know, the usual overdone Halloween house on the corner, except we were in the middle of the block.

She dressed in her usual black robes, wore the tall witch’s hat she had purchased some years ago, and carried around a plastic pumpkin full of candy. There were eerie skull shaped candlesticks on the tables inside the door, far enough back in the foyer that anyone standing on the porch could see them. When she’d had a boyfriend, who was now, thankfully gone, he’d dressed up as well. The last boyfriend had been a zombie. For Halloween, I mean, although really, it was hard to tell.

This year, despite being sans boyfriend, preferable as far as I was concerned, there were boiling herbs in the kitchen to lend the smells of sage and patchouli. Leanne found these scents particularly witchy, although I’m not sure the children understood that. She had on her eerie music, low in the background, punctuated by periodic screams as if someone was being