The Witches Page #3

Oh. [sighs]

I feared this was happening.

That lady you saw in the grocery store was no lady.

What you saw was a witch.

[thunder claps]

A witch?

That’s right.

A no-good, rotten, low-down, sneaky, sneaky witch.

Okay. Okay.

Is this you and your church friends trying to play a joke on me?

‘Cause if it is, it’s not very funny.

Listen, child.

Witches ain’t nothing to joke about.

I’ve known children who no longer exist as children on this earth.

They were turned, transformed, taken by witches.

[thunder claps]

[Hero gasps]

I can tell you about Alice Blue.

Well, Alice Blue and I were best friends.

We lived across the street from each other.

We were like sisters.

Inseparable.

We did everything together, even our chores.

But Alice was a lollygagger.

Alice, quit lollygagging, girl.

It’s almost suppertime.

[steam hisses]

[Grandma] Alice did something no child should ever do.

She took candy from a stranger.

[ominous music playing]

I got so scared, I tore out of there like greased lightning, and hightailed it straight home.

I never should have left Alice alone.

I knew I shouldn’t have.

But I was so scared.

Later that night, when I saw Alice alive, I was as happy as a mouse in a bucket of cheese.

But the very next morning, all that happiness went away because it happened.

[whispers] She started turning.

[shrieks]

[clucking]

[crowing]

[clucking]

[crows]

Alice was chicken-afied.

Chicken-alified.

[clucking continues]

Lordy!

Look at the size of that chicken.

Y’all seen where Alice run off to?

She’s right… there.

[woman] What you talking about, child?

Where’d she go?

[Grandma] I tried to explain what I saw, but everybody was looking at me like I was crazy.

Finally, I just shut up about it.

Although, I made it a point to visit Alice in her coop every day.

[chicken groans]

Hi, Alice.

[clucking]

[Grandma] Alice even laid eggs.

Big green ones.

Biggest green eggs I ever seen.

People said they were delicious.

What about the witch?

What about her?

Did she go away?

Oh, my, no.

Once a witch come into your life, it never…

[thunder cracking]

[whispers] Never… Oh, my, Lord in Heaven.

What am I thinking?

I just told you we saw a witch today.

A witch in the grocery store.

And what am I doing?

Sitting here like I’m blind in one eye and can’t see out the other, wasting precious time lollygagging.

[thunder continues rumbling]

[older Hero] Always wondered what Grandma kept in that locked closet.

Turns out it was full of medicinal herbs and elixirs, and old books about ancient healing.

Now, my mom always said Grandma was sort of a country-type healer.

But now I was starting to think she might be a voodoo priestess.

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