The Gnome Who Swore the Mushroom Was Listening
Audience: Grown-up humor
After a late visit, a vine tangles a gnome on Mossbottom's lantern path. A glowing mushroom repeats his excuses, and by morning the village seems to know. Cl...
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Bawdy
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Bawdy
37 published tales
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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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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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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Lady Blushmidge and the Uninvited Pollen Dusting
Audience: Grown-up humor
Lady Blushmidge arrives at Bloomberry Court expecting tea and leaves coated in suspicious pollen, implicated in a reproductive scandal, and chasing a sticky ...
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Sir Glazebutt and the Suspiciously Polished Petal
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Glazebutt’s homemade credentials, suspiciously hands-on inspection methods, and professionally polished backside have made him the Sugarwild Garden’s lea...
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The Bluebell-Shelled Gaspurtle Who Saw Everything
Audience: Grown-up humor
Glissabelle Gaspurtle witnesses Lord Slipperoot backing out of Widow Honeystem’s flowerbed with his waistcoat open, his trousers compromised, and nectar drip...
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The Backfold Bogbean Who Backed Into Bloomberry Trouble
Audience: Grown-up humor
Bramblebum Bogbean insists he merely slipped into Lady Blushberry’s tightly curled backfold—but the climbing rope, suspicious pollen marks, and remarkably sa...
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The Sticky-Toed Bloomtoad Who Entered Through the Back Petal
Audience: Grown-up humor
A sticky-toed little bloomtoad takes one very questionable shortcut through Lady Camberbell’s back petal and accidentally becomes the center of Blushmire Gar...
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Madame Blushwhisk and the Overenthusiastic Pistil
Audience: Grown-up humor
Madame Blushwhisk arrives at the Grand Bloom Pageant ready to judge elegance, restraint, and proper petal behavior—only to face a wildly overenthusiastic hib...
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The Taffy-Tongued Bloomnewt Who Swore It Was Just a Taste
Audience: Grown-up humor
When Taffy Puddlepinch insists a flower winked first, the Sugarwild Garden erupts into a sticky little scandal of glamoured petals, stolen blushroot pollen, ...
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The Wobble-Eyed Pollen Newt Who Forgot Which Petal Was Home
Audience: Grown-up humor
Nibwick Thrumple wakes up sticky, sparkling, and absolutely not on his own petal after one too many sips of moonbloom nectar. Now the wobble-eyed pollen newt...
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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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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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