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 Punk Pixie Manifesto

The Punk Pixie Manifesto

Audience: Grown-up humor

Wing Maintenance & Other Threats I was elbow-deep in wing glue and bad decisions when the messenger hit my window like a drunk moth. Shattered glass. Con...

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A red-capped gnome rides a smiling speckled young dragon above a golden valley beneath the Tooth & Twinkle title.

Tooth & Twinkle

Audience: Grown-up humor

Reginald wanted a quiet life. Twinkle wanted to fly. One meddling wizard and a disastrous canyon trial turn their unwilling partnership into something danger...

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The Juicy Guardian winks among tropical fruit beneath the Unfocussed Captured Tales title.

The Juicy Guardian

Audience: Grown-up humor

A tiny dragon with an enormous opinion of himself takes on airborne fruit thieves—and discovers that guarding an orchard includes cleaning up the mess.

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Laughing red-haired fae Fennella and her red shoulder dragon beneath the Sunlit Shenanigans Captured Tales title.

Sunlit Shenanigans

Audience: Grown-up humor

Fennella Bramblebite and her pocket dragon turn a honeycake picnic into a courtroom disaster. With banishment looming, a trial by satire offers one last chan...

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Scowling copper-and-indigo dragon with folded arms and orange wings beside dandelions and the Don't Make Me Puff title.

Don't Make Me Puff

Audience: Grown-up humor

Snortles wants conquest. The forest offers him an internship. When a giant cursed hare arrives, a tiny dragon discovers what all that tea-kettle practice was...

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Cream-gold dragon with a sapphire eye among autumn leaves beside the A Glimmer in the Grove title.

A Glimmer in the Grove

Audience: Grown-up humor

Elira wanted breakfast, not a luminous hatchling with opinions about cheese. Pip needs more than protection from a cage: he needs someone who comes back when...

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Laughing orange phoenix Charlene and slate dragon Gorp share a flower-filled meadow beneath the Tiny Roars & Rising Embers title.

Tiny Roars & Rising Embers

Audience: Grown-up humor

An adult pocket dragon and a reborn phoenix go looking for cheese and accidentally acquire a cult, a raccoon grievance and a friendship built to survive both.

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Crispin, a sapphire baby dragon with amber wings and a smug grin, perches on an autumn stump beside the Tiny But Ticked Off title.

Tiny But Ticked Off

Audience: Grown-up humor

Crispin T. Blort wants respect, a quiet stump and absolutely no tutu. Two meddling gnomes give him glitter instead—and Pinewood gets a revolution with jazz h...

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In Mossbottom, adult gnomes Barnaby and Glimmer celebrate beneath heart lanterns as the Mossfather wakes beside an old birdbath.

Garden of Devotion

Audience: Grown-up humor

In Mossbottom, Barnaby and Glimmer plan a garden vow renewal that welcomes music, listening, and quiet corners alike. When a grumpy Mossfather wakes beneath ...

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A delighted toddler hugs a smiling green dragon beneath the My Dragon Bestie story title.

My Dragon Bestie

Audience: Grown-up humor

Max brings home a dragon. His parents bring their last remaining patience. From suburban smoke alarms to Dragonland diplomacy, one unlikely friendship turns ...

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Hope in Hooded Silence

Hope in Hooded Silence

Audience: Grown-up humor

Hooded, Not Humbled The fairy in question had a name, of course. But like all good woodland mysteries, she preferred it whispered. Call her "Hope" and she'll...

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Soaked in Sunshine and Mischief

Soaked in Sunshine and Mischief

Audience: Grown-up humor

It was the kind of rain that made the world smell alive — damp earth, crushed leaves, and that heady perfume of mushrooms fermenting secrets into the soil. ...

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Echoes of Autumn and Dawn

Echoes of Autumn and Dawn

Audience: Grown-up humor

She stood where the worlds divided, her bare feet pressed against the cracked threshold of an invisible seam, stitched together by the unseen hands of gods w...

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