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    Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story: The Shifty Magician
    Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story: The Shifty Magician
    Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story: The Shifty Magician
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    Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story: The Shifty Magician

    By Cathy Smith

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    Warlock's Weekly's Top 10 division lists for the practitioners of the Trade is black magician Damien Rathschild's guilty pleasure. His apprentice, Shelton "Shifty" Sharpe, finds out the Top 10 lists encourages aggressive competition among the magicians who want to improve their standing in the lists.

     

    Damien is outraged when inexperienced up-and-comer Calvin Whitby is given the top spot in his division. He's so dismissive of Calvin, he forces Shifty to jinx him instead of dealing with him himself.

     

    Can Shifty defend himself when Calvin takes this insult personally?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCathy Smith
    Release dateMay 18, 2018
    ISBN9781386778516
    Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story: The Shifty Magician
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    Cathy Smith

    Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America). She is proud of her people’s heritage and also has an interest in the myths and legends of other peoples and cultures, and modern fantasy and science fiction, which is often derived from past myths and often acts as myths for modern times.

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      Secrets of the Trade - Cathy Smith

      Secrets of the Trade: A Shifty Magician Short Story

      The Shifty Magician

      Cathy Smith

      Published by Cathy Smith, 2018.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      SECRETS OF THE TRADE: A SHIFTY MAGICIAN SHORT STORY

      First edition. May 18, 2018.

      Copyright © 2018 Cathy Smith.

      ISBN: 978-1386778516

      Written by Cathy Smith.

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      Secrets of the Trade

      It was my duty to sort my master, Damien Rathschild's mail each morning. The magical infusion he gave me heightened my intuition into a sharp gut instinct. It was useful for this task. He received death threats all the time. Some letter writers were content with written vitriol. Other writers inlaid hexes and potions in their letters to him. Such letters felt grimy and slimy in my hand. I threw them into a trash bin unopened before they got incinerated.

      Yet there were nuances to these missives. An enchantress may attach perfumed glamour to her notes. I had to keep track of those who were currently in my master's favor. He wanted only the charms of those he preferred to reach him.

      Then there were the weekly additions of his trade's guild Bulletin and the Warlock Weekly. The Bulletin’s worth was self-evident. The Warlock Weekly got denounced as the worst rag in the Trade and was a guilty pleasure to its readers. Its name was an issue since no magic practitioner ever wanted to be considered a warlock

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