A Sweet Magic
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  • Reads 1,748
  • Votes 434
  • Parts 74
  • Time 5h 16m
Complete, First published Oct 30, 2022
Part One💫
Sent to spend the summer with her eccentric nan, Cathy would sooner be anywhere else. The rooms in Topsy Turvey House are bursting with boxes and thick with dust. Apart from one. Inside the dingy drawing room hangs an antique mirror, and when it tries to eat her, Cathy's sure things can't get any worse.
 But soon after, she wakes to find herself trapped in the fairy realm by a powerful sorcerer called Hex. His only explanation is his need for a servant. However, working for Hex proves to be impossible. He's the most despicable creature Cathy has ever met. And destined for more than emptying chamber pots, she plans to escape.
 With the help of a cat called Tibbles, Cathy soon learns that things are not as they seem beyond the mirror.

Part Two💫
When Cathy left the fairy realm, she never expected to return.
She was guilty of treason after freeing Hex from King Julius' dungeon. But when her brother falls through the portal in her nan's antique mirror, Cathy must follow, no matter the consequences. 
Hidden behind the mirror is a realm inhabited by witches, dragons, goblins, and a sorcerer determined to rescue his wife from the horrid Prince Horace.
And thanks to Cathy, Hex is free. Hex heads toward Horace's castle but soon meets a large talking toad with his own tale.
Once a respectable goblin, Prince Horace cursed Chester for theft, turning him into a toad, and banishing him from court. 
In need of an ally, Hex offers to break Horace's spell if Chester will guide him into the castle. Eager to return to his privileged life, Chester agrees.
However, when Hex hears of Cathy's return, he faces a dilemma: continue on and rescue Rose or turn back and save Cathy.
But will Cathy prove she has what it takes to save herself and her brother?
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A Swing in the Park

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It was the summer of 1976 when my father left us. It was a particularly memorable summer and my mother suffered terribly. My father had left her for a younger woman and moved into her apartment which was above a flower shop where she worked. My mother struggled making ends meet and got a job as a nursing assistant at Peaceful Haven, an old folks home that still exists although it is very badly run down now. Because she could not afford a baby sitter, my mother took me to work where I sat in the lounge and watched TV and read books. On her lunch breaks she took me across the street to Faulkner Park where she made out with Fred while I wandered around eating my sandwich. But I quickly grew bored. I was 8 then, a bright young girl with an active imagination. I imagined doors in the sandbox, swings into the sky, doors to another world. And in the rooms of the old lost souls were more doors only waiting to be opened. I took those souls with me on my adventures and eased their loneliness and age with my contagious eagerness to believe anything. And then a terrible thing happened to me, so terrible I could not speak of it. I was in hospital, unable to believe anymore and my old friends came to visit me and to believe for me. I am 30 now, and as I write this and look back I wonder if I still believe. And yes, I do. Believing got me through that summer and believing got my father to come home again.