Sarah Grey | Brightly, Undiminished

Summary: <i>Witchcraft is a gift</i>. Imelda would wave her steel spoon at Mercer and insist on this as he measured ingredients for her, whether she was boiling potions or a pot of farfalle pasta. <i>Watch the salt, a teaspoon only, never pour too much</i>. <i>Don’t overheat the sauce. Bottle the hawks’ gizzards separate from the basilisks’</i>. <i>Never half-ass a gift, Mercy</i>. Her perpetual imperative. Mercer is alone now. His hands are unsteady---they’ve shaken like a drunkard’s since they held Imelda as she passed---and he is no witch. | Copyright 2021 by Sarah Grey. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.