“It’s My Party and I’ll Scry If I Want To” and “No Bunny Like You” in Weathering Youth
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection!
“It’s My Party and I’ll Scry If I Want To” and “No Bunny Like You” are a perfect pair. Both titles are a play on a different phrase, and both involve teenage magic users navigating the sorts of problems teenagers often encounter, but with a slight twist!
“It’s My Party and I’ll Scry If I Want To” is a flash fiction piece involving a young woman with a crush who uses her magic to find out whether the young man on whom she has a crush is planning to humiliate her or if, perhaps, he’s actually interested.
“No Bunny Like You” is a short story in which the protagonist is preparing to return to the magical school she attends but realizes that she needs to start the school year with a familiar, and she’s procrastinated on doing that summer assignment. Turning up without a familiar will subject her to scrutiny from her classmates, so embarks on the task with more than a few problems cropping up along the way. It’s a fun play on the idea of teenagers following trends and “must have” items at the beginning of a new school year, again with a magical twist.
Both of these two stories are exclusive to Weathering Youth, and you can read them, along with other stories featuring young protagonists in a variety of settings, in print and ebook formats!
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