The Seedpod That Fired Before Anyone Was Ready
Audience: Grown-up humor
A Sugarwild seed ceremony bursts ahead of schedule. Adult seed tender Mira must save scattered seedlings while the garden turns her mishap into a very public...
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Audience: Grown-Up Humor
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Audience: Grown-Up Humor
135 published tales
The Blossom That Left a Mark
Audience: Grown-up humor
A bright pollen mark makes Vellin the subject of the garden's most suggestive rumor. Redveil meant to send a message, and her seedlings need him to hear it b...
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The Wink That Got Away With Everything
Audience: Grown-up humor
A mischievous Sugarwild sprite wins a kiss and a wish from the night-bloom keeper. Her glowing garden fantasy leaves him bound to an impossible task, and kee...
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Sir Petalgrip and the Fold He Should’ve Respected
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Petalgrip volunteers a pair of wonderfully capable hands and promptly puts the rest of himself somewhere inadvisable. With a rainkeeper flower, a thirsty...
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Madame Sucklewink and the Nectar Bead That Hung On Too Long
Audience: Grown-up humor
Madame Sucklewink calls in a discreet botanist to solve one stubborn garden problem. But with a sticky bloom, a pipette, and nosy neighbors nearby, this priv...
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Sir Quilliam’s Demonstration of Aggressive Affection
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Quilliam has spent his life admired from a safe distance. When the gloriously overdressed Lord Beauregard volunteers for one dangerously sincere embrace,...
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Sir Nectarback and the Petal That Took It Personally
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Nectarback awakens inside a possessive Belladazzle with no trousers, a vicious hangover, and one catastrophic gap in his memory. The entire Sugarwild Gar...
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The Honey-Lipped Budnewt Who Couldn’t Swallow the Evidence
Audience: Grown-up humor
When a notorious nectar beetle is found crushed beneath a moonpetal, Niblick Budmouth is discovered hiding nearby with the victim’s jeweled wing wedged betwe...
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The Amethyst Moth Shrine of Palebranch
Audience: Grown-up humor
Mirella Mosswhistle asks the ancient Amethyst Moth for true love and receives Bramble Fen, a kind, wonderfully imperfect moonbee keeper. When Mirella returns...
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The Pollen-Slapped Peepdrake Who Asked One Question Too Many
Audience: Grown-up humor
After one ill-advised question earns Pibbit a faceful of enchanted pollen, the nosiest Peepdrake in Blushroot Hollow can suddenly hear every secret the garde...
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The Morning After the Mushroom Festival
Audience: Grown-up humor
Thimblewick Porridge wakes after the Midnight Spore Festival with one missing boot, a dog full of evidence, and an alarming number of mayoral obligations.
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The Dewslumped Budling Who Needed Two Hands and a Prayer
Audience: Grown-up humor
After waking trapped inside Madame Belladew with both hands locked to the rim and no memory of the night before, one spectacularly dewslumped budling learns ...
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The Honey-Slick Peepfrog Who Licked the Wrong Drip
Audience: Grown-up humor
Pipdrizzle is a turquoise Peepfrog with a crooked hat, an unruly tongue, and absolutely no respect for unattended nectar. When one forbidden golden drip acti...
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The Blushroot Peepdrake Who Found the Warm Spot
Audience: Grown-up humor
A tiny peepdrake discovers the warmest flower in Sugarwild Garden and refuses to surrender it, even as the blushroots begin drawing dangerous heat from the E...
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Countess Dewpucker and the Questionable Nectar Kiss
Audience: Grown-up humor
A staged kiss at Queen Honeyblush's Nectar Ball leaves Countess Dewpucker publicly engaged to shy nectar steward Basil Bumblewick. To reclaim the scandal—and...
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