The Glimmer Falls Gazette - June 2022
Dear reader,
It’s time for June’s installment of The Glimmer Falls Gazette! This monthly publication details the goings-on in the small town A WITCH’S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING A DEMON is set in. In this edition:
-Flowers!
-Furniture!
-Fists!
Read on for the good gossip…
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Side headlines: Solstice Shenanigans. June Bloom. LYKEA Madness! Ask Sphinxie.
First page: [Image of three young women in colorful clothes dancing at a crowded outdoor festival]
Solstice Shenanigans. by Ransom Thibodeaux.
June 21st is the summer solstice! Wow, time flies when you're a writer for a small town newspaper struggling to come up with monthly content! The town square hosts singing, dancing, and sacrifices to various sun deities, and the Hellenic Society is sponsoring a wax-wing-crafting competition for anyone who craves a taste of the sky. Just make sure you don't fly too high...
June Bloom. by Zawadi Cheboi.
It's summer, and the Pacific Northwest is awash in color! Head into the woods to bask in the greenery or take a stroll around town to see a huge variety of flowers. A few blooming right now: Japanese snowbell trees, honeysuckles, Pacific Mock Orange, Apothecary's Rose, witch's tit, ditch lilies, and the aptly (if unfortunately) named Centaur Cock Crocus. Careful plucking one of those - you'll need both hands, and the pollen is very sticky!
Second Page: [Image of a man and woman perusing chairs at a furniture store]
LYKEA Madness! by Artemis Crumpet.
Fans of ready-to-assemble furniture and generic home goods, do I have news for you! The werewolf-run furniture and home accessory store LYKEA has opened a branch 30 minutes outside Glimmer Falls. Come for the ambiguously named shelving units, stay for the ambiguously constituted meatballs.
Not everyone is happy, though. Werewolf woodworker Ranulf Howland of neighboring Fable Farms says, "It's an affront to creativity and authenticity. The big box bourgeoisie won't get away with this!"
But the meatballs are so good...
Ask Sphinxie.
Dear Sphinxie,
I (Witch, 27F) got in a bar brawl with a pack of Corgi shifters the other day. We had a great time fighting, but my mother says I'm tarnishing our family legacy because I can't keep my fists to myself. I don't want to stop fighting. Any advice?
-Fighting In Shifter Tussles Is No Good?
Dear FISTING,
Shifters are known for friendly fights, so the actual brawling isn't a concern. Similarly, if a legacy can be tarnished with a single punch, what is it worth? But I suspect your words hide another question.
Every punch begins with an impulse, flickering from mind to fingers along the electric pathways of the body. What impulse drives your fists? If you cannot confess that, your real issue appears.