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This week's chapters open with Maddy wondering about a number of things, including the lack of calls for her services. she decides to visit Josh to use his phone, and because she hasn't seen him in a while.

Arriving in his living room, she finds him unconscious and under attack by Magic users. She deals with them and fixes him a nice meal. Later they interrogate those sent by the Guild, but she decides to deal with the Guild tomorrow.

In the morning, at Josh's, she tries to call her phone and finds it blocked, before they leave for Atlanta.

At The Villa, she collapses the Guild's wards, deals with their thugs, and replaces their wards with her own. Those still in the Vila create a ward just around the building.

At the front of the building, she uses a strong bit of Magic to knock on their front doors before removing their second ward. When the leaders of the Guild emerge, she is surprised to realize that she knows them. She deals with them as she had the others.

The heavy use of Magic has attracted the police and many of the Ley Line users. She has them help the police remove the Guild members, while she ans Josh return home. On the way, Josh suggests how to fix her phone. They find the bug and she deals with it.

Kennith Sweeney arrives that night to check on her, and warns her about what was said to the media about her. Later that night, at a Ley Line users meeting, there is a discussion about what to do about her.

Enjoy these chapters. More next week.

Keep Well,
uncle jim

The new chapters have been sent to the Moderators for posting.

This weeks chapters open with Maddy needing to go the the store for groceries. She is very careful about the wards around her house and property.

Later, she and Josh are finishing dinner when her wards alert them that someone is trying to enter her property. She deals with the Witches trying to steal herbs from her. Even later, the wards alert her again. She finds gang members come to paint her car again and deals with them also.

A week or so later, a demon is caught in her house wards. He is followed by a Wizard who was dealing with him. Maddy eventually makes the demon talk. In the morning, she recounts her dream about the guardian to Al before inquiring how he became a Familiar.

On the way to the store later, she has a problem at the bank, but it is solved by Magic. Leaving the store later, she is chased by four men. She turns the table on them, and takes their weapons and money. she also disables the video cameras watching the parking lot.

That night, David De Tocqueville appears and sets off her wards. He demands to know what she did with all of the Magic that afternoon. He is quite upset when he learns. At a meeting of Ley Line Wizards that evening, David informs them of what he had learned. They agree to keep an eye on her.

Enjoy these chapters, more next week.

Keep Well,
uncle jim

The first three chapters of the new story have been sent to the Moderators for posting.

The new story opens with a body being brought into hospital more dead than alive. Maddy is miraculously restored by Magic from a nearby Ley Line. The Magic also makes a few changes in her. The doctors are shocked and amazed by her sudden change of status, but Maddy is anxious to leave.

On reaching the parking lot, her neighbor Josh arrives to take her home, At home, she needs to find some clothes that will fit her new body. She also needs to retrieve her car, which she left in the next town up the road.

Arriving in her kitchen after dressing, she discovers a major Ley Line user waiting there to question her. That night, she has nightmares about what had happened to her.

The following day, her neighbor takes her to get her car, which has graffiti all over it. A spell removes the new paint, and Maddy heads downtown to find books on Ley Line Magic and its use.

The store, she stops at, doesn't have any of those books on display, but a senior employee takes her to the back, where he discloses that her Grandmother had left books for her some 60 years ago. Maddy leaves with the books, but her Familiar reminds her that she needs more clothes. They stop to get more clothes on the way home.

She also needs underthings and stops at a big box store near her home. There she encounters two Ley Line Wizards, one of whom swats her, knocking her down, and calling her a 'Broken Witch'. Maddy is furious about that.

Arriving home, she discovers that the books are not in her car and is frantic about what had happened to them. To her shock and surprise, she finds them sitting on her kitchen table. Later, she discovers that she is only able to touch one of the books, as the others avoid her. She begins studying the one book.

Her neighbor, Josh, arrives for dinner and can look at and touch all of the books, which are written in a very old dialect of Gaelic. Maddy is surprised by this, as she had been reading the book for several hours and hadn't noticed.

That night she has a strange dream and meets the Guardian of the Books in it. The Guardian explains the history of the books and makes a prediction.

There is NO sex in Book 1. You must wait until book 2 for that. This is the First Book in the Ley Line Witch Series. It is presently envisioned to consist of three books, with the possibility of a fourth book if the writing goes well and I can develop a plot for it.

These stories and the series started out as something to have fun with, and not anything serious, but once started, the first book seemed to take on a life of its own. I can only hope the rest of the series is as enjoyable to write.

Enjoy these chapters. More next week, as the story is finished and I have started on Book 2.

Keep Well,
uncle jim

I am planning on starting a new series next Friday the 16th of August.

The story will be entitled "Broken Witch" and it will be Book One in the Ley Line Witch series. The start date is dependent on editing, but I expect to be able to start then.

Keep Well,
uncle jim

I received a number of corrections from a friendly reader for this story, and will be reposting a number of chapters with the corrections. I started with chapters 1, 2, and 4 today. They will be available shortly.

Keep Well,
uncle jim