Katie and the Other Witch Part 1. Hello, this is Natasha and I'm here with the first of a two-part story about Katie and the other witch.

Katie lives in a small town where certain people always keep up with the latest gossip. There's Margot, the vicar of St Mary's, Chris, the landlord of the King's Arms, Angelina,

the receptionist at the doctor's surgery, and Schumash, the managing partner of Crish Estate

Agency.

If there's an interesting new person in town, or somebody's leaving or having a baby,

or having a family problem, these are the people who always know

about it. Fortunately, Shumash is going out with Katie's mum and so she hears the most interesting news

pretty fast too. And then, if it's really interesting, she tells it to Katie.

And so, one evening when they were in the kitchen eating witch's broth, she said to Katie,

I had coffee with shoemash this morning and he told me that there is a new witch in town.

He helped her find her house. It's a really swish place up on the hill apparently. Oh, said Katie, that's exciting. Shall we invite her over?

Well, I tried to see her, said mum. I dropped round at her so-called surgery of white witchcraft, but her secretary

told me I had to make an appointment and pay money up front just to say hello. I didn't think

that sounded very friendly, so I looked her up on my crystal ball and couldn't find her.

In case you don't know, just about every witch in the world keeps a profile on the crystal ball network known as the Coven. It's a bit like Facebook, only it's been around for

centuries and you have to be a witch and have a crystal ball to use it. Katie obviously knew this and so she said,

how can she be a witch if she's not on the crystal ball? Mom shrugged and handed her a business card

that read, Agrippina Crompton, white witch. That's strange, said Katie.

Nobody calls themselves a white witch these days.

It sounds sort of yucky.

I agree, said Mum.

She's a fake witch, if you ask me.

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