Indeginous Stories

Juniper has been living in the same rural town her entire life. When an old friend comes back home after years of separation, the sixteen year old girl is able to recreate her life.

This is a short Nia Green story I wrote that originally appeared in the Cauldron's Brew, a small press publication, in February 1997. I lost the original final draft and had to rewrite it again. Nia and her friends notice unusual lights and a loud explosion that cracked the windows of Hilltop House and the nearby town of Lake Haven. Nia searches for Old Gwen to see if the witch knows something about the lights. Nia learns that she needs to use her natural magical abilities to help a displaced group of people to escape what would be a massacre. To do that she needs to open a gateway for them so they can travel to another world and escape Federal troops who have arrived to stop them.