Come Rapture or Ruin

FEATURED IN: Issue Two of The Crow’s Quill from Quill & Crow Publishing House

  • Publication date: September 2021
  • Editor: Cassandra L. Thompson, William Bartlett

ABOUT COME RAPTURE OR RUIN

Trapped by her vengeful coven, a witch does what she must to fight for her freedom.

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PUBLICATION DETAILS

CQ Magazine is an online literary magazine boasting stories horrific, dark, and defiantly macabre.

Quill & Crow Publishing House is a quaint and curious press dedicated to promoting the integrity of independent literature. Specializing in all things gothic and macabre, we strive to preserve the upmarket prose while lifting up voices often unheard. Quill & Crow is not your typical publishing house. Not only because we love bleeding heart poetry and all things odd & macabre, but because we are family. Each one of us brings something amazing & unique to the table.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

  • Brad Acevedo, Hansen Adcock, Mary Rajotte, K.R. Weiland, Lucas Mann, Kristen Cleaveland, David Andrews, Rebecca Jones-Howe, William Bartlett.

AN EXCERPT


My body is a prison bound to the earth by tangled roots and a curse whispered with ill intent. Banished from my covenstead by my sisters and left to rot, I endure this offensive confinement, persevering by the sheer will of my determination to escape.

For decades, I have lived in this grove, fused within this forsaken elm. Deep fissures gather dust across my limbs. Pungent mushrooms putrefy into blackened welts at my tangled roots. Belladonna and hemlock, with their sweet, noxious breath, taint the soil. I am a monstrosity accused of betrayal by my coven, abandoned to this hellish circumstance.

© MARY RAJOTTE

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