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There’s a Portal In the Vending Machine at the DMV.

Jeremy knew the DMV by its sounds and smells. Fluorescent lights warmed up with a thin electrical sigh. Vents pushed out stale cool air ...
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February is for Re-Enchantment: The Quiet Magic of Starting to Feel Again

February doesn’t arrive with fireworks. It slips in quietly, the hush after January’s noise, the soft breath between seasons.It’s the month that reminds us ...
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The Witch Who Forgot Her Name

The Witch Who Forgot Her Name

She woke up in a laundromat.Not the clean kind. The kind with flickering fluorescent lights, cracked tile, and a vending machine that hummed like ...
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The Woman Who Wrote Spells on Parking Tickets

It started, as most things do, with annoyance. Bea had been working for the city’s parking enforcement department for eleven years. She didn’t love ...
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Your Fantasy Job in an Alternate Realm

If your everyday job came with magic, strange creatures, or impossible rules, what would you actually be good at? Forget alarm clocks and normal ...
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Magical Ways to Start Again (That Don’t Involve a Glow-Up)

Somewhere along the way, we started thinking that “starting over” meant a dramatic transformation. New hair. New job. New fitness tracker. New version of ...
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How To Sprinkle A Little Weird Magic On Your New Year

Let’s get one thing out of the way: you don’t need a total life makeover just because a ball dropped in Times Square. You ...
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Small Joys, Secret Spells

Some people swear by meditation. Others have vision boards or five-year plans. Me? I have rituals. Little ones. Slightly odd, mostly joyful. I make ...
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How the Weeks Before the Holidays Hold Unexpected Joy

There’s a particular stretch of time every year that tends to slip past unnoticed. Not quite the holidays, not quite ordinary, it’s the stretch ...
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