The Raising of Hester Macrae

Villagers suspect a known plant witch of necromancy when a child is raised from the dead. Only the witch's wife Hester knows the truth: it's not the plant witch who's the necromancer, but Hester herself. 3,700 words.

TWs/CWs: mention of child death, threatened violence, threatened expulsion,
implied human death, (brief) animal death off-page

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A version of this story was originally published in Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction (no. 4) in May 2022.