Hex Magic: HEX'D Book One by Baker, Andrew Forrest

First Edition | Atlanta : Parlyaree Press, 2024 Identifiers: LCCN: 2023916020| ISBN 9781961206052 (paperback) Subjects: LCGFT: Novels LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023916020 Design by Parlyaree Press Imagery liscened from Adobe Stock. Front Cover/Title Typeface is Rosella Solid. Interior Text Typeface is Baskerville, designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville and cut by punchcutter John Handy. Interior Ornaments from Espiritu, LTC Flourons, & Bodoni Ornaments. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-961206-05-2 Ebook ISBN: 987-1-961206-06-9 To all the queer writers who brought their sex to the forefront & let their sexuality sing across the page. To accepting who we are and how we love. To telling the story uncensored. PROLOGUE “You supposed to be some kind of warlock or something?” It was a common question, especially on the weekends. I could have told him that witch was the word he was looking for—that the term itself was gender neutral—but looking at him, fresh off a Friday night of frat parties at the nearby college and filled with more machismo than brain cells, I just decided to smile and ask: “Do I look like a warlock?” He froze. Even a few years prior, I would have admired the broadness of his shoulders, the blondness of his hair. I’d been more bite than brains back then too. Now I had a few years in the city under my belt, not to mention a couple years as a business owner leaving dark circles under my eyes. Even the poultices I conjured couldn’t completely conceal them.