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
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
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 little dragon had a crooked broom, a red cloak, a pointed hat and one simple errand to finish before midnight. Then a moth found the broom's shiny bell, ...
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Lady Cinderpuff has a small problem on her nose and a very large bubble refusing to become anyone else's problem. Huffs, careful taps and several increasingl...
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Duchess Emberwhisk has practiced her royal portrait face down to the last scale. Then a blue butterfly lands on her nose, and one very small wingbeat sends t...
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A self-appointed dragon knight demands a steady mushroom perch, until he discovers the small lives sheltered beneath its cap. A funny Tiny Scales tale about ...
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A tiny garden show-off promises to carry a dewdrop across a bellflower bridge. When the petal bends and the whole garden watches, he discovers that the harde...
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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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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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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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Queen Gourdelia has never trusted a dessert that can maintain eye contact. When a terrified little tart invokes the Seven Courses of Procrastination, a simpl...
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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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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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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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Pippleslot considers himself a visionary with unusually flexible hips. But when his latest shortcut leaves him wedged inside Madame Blushcurl’s prize bloom, ...
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