Category Archives: Wishing and Magic

A Samhain Treat for You

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Charlotte Henley Babb

Just in time for some spooky reading Download your free copy of Just a Smidgen of Magic from Amazon Oct. 31 (today) and Nov. 1 ( tomorrow). Five flash fiction encounters with the arcane in the mundane! I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Reflections on where you’ve been

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Charlotte Henley Babb

What are the stories you tell yourself about your past. What if you considered those stories all lies, and started looking at them from a different angle? Continue reading →

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Three Wish Stories

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Charlotte Henley Babb

The first rule of granting wishes is “Be careful what you wish for–you might get it.” Three themes exist in the make-a-wish stories: the one wish that sets the machinery of the universe in motion the unthinking wish that must … Continue reading →

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Good wish or bad witch?

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Charlotte Henley Babb

A wicked witch, as opposed to other witches, works magic to have power over others, to force them to do her bidding against their will A good working definition of evil is power over others, making others do what we wants against their will whether by magic or at gunpoint. Continue reading →