February 2025 – Page 5

Friday Five: Q&A with Witcraft founder and editor Doug Jacquier

‘… there’s a market out there of people who want some daily relief from the gloom and doom …’

Eidtor’s note: Witcraft founder Doug Jacquier announced February 19 , 2025,that this literary site would cease publication effective March 31, 2025. Read more.

Tired of wading through the negativity flooding your social media and news feeds? Why not shut down X and Facebook for a while and visit Witcraft, an online journal that offers a daily dose of comic relief, which is much-needed these days.

Practicing patience

My freshman year of college, I became friends with an older student. (He was old enough to buy beer, which made him a very good friend indeed.) He lived in a nondescript apartment downtown, above one of the local businesses, and the only thing I remember about the place was a poster that depicted two cartoon vultures perched on a dead tree limb in a desert. One vulture is saying to the other, “Patience my ass. I’m gonna kill something.”