Where the Rats Can’t Get Me

Kath Whiting's "Where the Rats Can't Get Me" was the winner of Canary Wharf's Short Story Writing Competition, summer 2020. Kath is a magical realist foraging for friendly words. When not writing, she can be found drawing, dancing and enjoying the colour green, sometimes simultaneously. http://kathwhiting.blogspot.co.uk

I'm writing about the witch in the woods for my social history project. Ms. Titian said to interview an elderly relative but mine all died before I was born, so I'm doing the witch. James Suggs laughed at me and said she's just a mad old woman, but I know she's a witch because she's got a broomstick that she beats people away with. Plus James Suggs is too chicken to even go into the woods.I'm not chicken though. My garden backs onto the woods, and I've always played there. I've watched that witch my whole life. I saw her catch a rabbit once and wring its neck with her bare hands, and I've seen

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