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

Grinning green hatchling Scorch raises a paw on a forest log beneath the Paws, Claws, and Dragon Flaws title.

Paws, Claws, and Dragon Flaws

Audience: Grown-up humor

Bramblewick’s newest menace has tiny wings, sticky claws and no respect for personal property. Fiona steps in—but making Scorch her apprentice may be her wor...

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Mystic Feathers and Cosmic Light

Mystic Feathers and Cosmic Light

Audience: Grown-up humor

Once upon a particularly weird Tuesday night, somewhere between a dream and an ill-advised fourth glass of wine, an owl named Professor Hootsworth McFluffing...

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The Grumpy Guardian of the Glade

The Grumpy Guardian of the Glade

Audience: Grown-up humor

Deep in the heart of the Eldermoss Forest, where the trees whispered gossip about the birds and the mushrooms glowed suspiciously at night, there existed a t...

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A lime-green and blue hatchling with orange wings in a luminous forest, beneath the Unfocussed Captured Tales title Neon Hatchling of the Deepwoods.

Neon Hatchling of the Deepwoods

Audience: Grown-up humor

An accountant follows a peculiar impulse into the glowing Deepwoods, loses his lunch to a tiny dragon and discovers that friendship works better when everyon...

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The Elf and the Dragon's Meeting

The Elf and the Dragon's Meeting

Audience: Grown-up humor

Deep in the Enchanted Forest, where the toadstools were as large as wagon wheels and just as sturdy, an elf named Lila stumbled into a peculiar predicament. ...

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Daisy Days and Ladybug Portraits

Daisy Days and Ladybug Portraits

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Fairy with the Lens As the golden sun dipped low, painting the fields in amber hues, Trixie the fairy perched herself atop a daisy, armed with her prized...

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A visibly amused adult gnome in a red and gold striped cap raises a toast beneath colorful New Year fireworks in a bright, snow-covered Echoterra forest clearing.

A Gnome’s New Year Revelry

Audience: Grown-up humor

At the edge of Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods, one grumpy adult gnome throws a New Year’s party for himself—and answers the shared Echo Pulse on his own ...

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Meditative Whiskers of Light

Meditative Whiskers of Light

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Hippie’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions Another year, another trip around the sun. That’s what I told myself as I sat on my meditation pillow in the co...

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Lantern Light and Holly Delight

Lantern Light and Holly Delight

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Day After Christmas: The Gnome Chronicles The day after Christmas dawned cold and bitter. Snow still clung to the pine branches outside the gnome’s hut, ...

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Guardian of Changing Times

Guardian of Changing Times

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Dragonfly’s New Year’s Resolution It was December 31st, and deep within the forest, where the trees whispered secrets and the rivers chuckled like gossip...

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A jewel-scaled baby dragon holding a red bauble among snowy fir branches, beneath the Unfocussed Captured Tales title Twinkle Scales and Holiday Tales.

Twinkle Scales and Holiday Tales

Audience: Grown-up humor

A reluctant winter walker meets a jewel-bright little dragon with an ornament to spare. In the snowy reaches of the Deepwoods, Marla discovers that holiday c...

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The Yuletide Defender

The Yuletide Defender

Audience: Grown-up humor

It was the night before Christmas, and not a creature was stirring, except for Santa Claus himself—and he was armed to the teeth. The jolly old elf, usually ...

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