A Dragon’s Gentle Awakening
Audience: Grown-up humor
Newly hatched Ziggy has a sharp tongue, tiny wings and serious complaints about his first morning. Two stranded travelers give him a reason to stay—and teach...
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Fall’s Fiery Duo: Phoenix and Dragon in Autumn Water
Audience: All readers
Blaze the phoenix and Scorch the baby dragon turn a golden autumn pond into a splash contest. A persistent fish and an unimpressed duck make sure their after...
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Pout and Prank: Gnome Siblings at Play
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Interviewer: Oh boy, we’ve got a real sibling rivalry on our hands here, don’t we? Let’s start with the basics—who’s the prankster and who’s the pouter? Fin...
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Laughing with Dragons: A Gnome's Joyful Moment
Audience: Grown-up humor
Grimble Bottomsworth has a magnificent laugh and terrible judgment. Snarky has tiny wings, unreliable fire and excellent teeth. A collapsing toadstool and a ...
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Embers of Friendship
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In a mystical forest where every leaf seemed to be on fire—not metaphorically, but literally—an unusual pair floated in the shallow waters of a glowing rive...
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Happily Ever After... Mostly
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Happily Ever After... Mostly Interviewer: Good afternoon, folks! Thanks for agreeing to sit down with us. You two look…well, quite the pair! How long have y...
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Arc of Harmony in the Park: A Symphony of Souls
Audience: Grown-up humor
Setting note: This Captured Tale imagines Forest Park and the Gateway Arch together in one dreamlike St. Louis scene. They are separate places in the real c...
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The Butterfly Effect Redefined
Audience: Grown-up humor
In the heart of a metropolis where history and the future entwine like the cogs of a temporal engine, a relic known as the Aethertide Amulet vanished, leavi...
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The Metallic Masquerade
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In the dim light of the equinox, the renowned artifact collector, Evelyn Chartres, stood before a piece that had long eluded the most ardent seekers of esot...
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A Barn's Tale
Audience: Grown-up humor
Tucked away in a forgotten nook of the valley, where the forest whispers its secrets to anyone who dares listen, stands a barn—a witness to a hundred season...
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The Fractal Flora Waltz
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In the enchanting realm where the Fractal Flora Waltz took place, every swirl and sweep of the fractal petals was a verse in the universe’s grand poem. It w...
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The Serenity of the Savage Garden
Audience: Grown-up humor
In the heart of a sleepy town veiled in the whispers of time, where the days stretched lazily like cats in the sun, there lived an elderly woman named Edith...
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Guardian of the Storm's Fury
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In Eldoria, a realm of mystic splendor where the whispers of ancients moved through the air like leaves in the wind, Sir Caelum, the Storm's Guardian, was a...
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The Enchanter's Symphony: Alaric and the Magic of the Whispering Forest
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In Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods, Alaric’s forest symphony discovers the one thing a keeper cannot create alone: a chorus willing to be heard.
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