All Captured Tales

The story archive

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 Well That Knew Too Damn Much Captured Tale

The Well That Knew Too Damn Much

Audience: Grown-up humor

A sharp-tongued widow inherits a crooked cottage, a crimson tree, and an old stone well with absolutely no filter. When the well starts spilling village secr...

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Moon Orchard Hollow Captured Tale

Moon Orchard Hollow

Audience: Grown-up humor

In Moon Orchard Hollow, one foolish baker steals from the Bad Decision Orchard under a full moon and accidentally triggers a village-wide audit of pride, gos...

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The Blossomclaw Crablet Captured Tale

The Blossomclaw Crablet

Audience: Grown-up humor

A tiny flower-crowned crab with big glossy eyes and an even bigger ego becomes the accidental center of a Sugarwild Garden legend when her flair for dramatic...

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The Lavender Door in the Hill Captured Tale

The Lavender Door in the Hill

Audience: Grown-up humor

Behind a lavender door tucked into a storm-kissed hill, the hidden village of Underbloom has a serious housing problem: the hill is alive, the rooms are movi...

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Naughty List Royalty

Naughty List Royalty

Audience: Grown-up humor

Naughty List Royalty is a crass festive legend about the gnome who didn’t ruin Christmas — he fixed it. When the Naughty List becomes a throne and honesty re...

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