The Witching Hour Went Sideways
Audience: All readers
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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Creature: Dragons and Drakes
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Creature: Dragons and Drakes
69 published tales
Lady Cinderpuff and the Bubble That Refused to Pop
Audience: All readers
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 and the Butterfly of Unacceptable Audacity
Audience: All readers
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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Sir Grumblethorn and the Mushroom That Disagreed
Audience: All readers
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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Sir Petalgrip and the Fold He Should’ve Respected
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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The Pollen-Slapped Peepdrake Who Asked One Question Too Many
Audience: Grown-up humor
After one ill-advised question earns Pibbit a faceful of enchanted pollen, the nosiest Peepdrake in Blushroot Hollow can suddenly hear every secret the garde...
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The Blushroot Peepdrake Who Found the Warm Spot
Audience: Grown-up humor
A tiny peepdrake discovers the warmest flower in Sugarwild Garden and refuses to surrender it, even as the blushroots begin drawing dangerous heat from the E...
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The Taffy-Tailed Peepdragon of Unsupervised Blooming
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A sticky-toed peepdragon with a candy-colored tail is blamed when the Sugarwild Garden’s First Sparkles begin vanishing before dawn. But in The Taffy-Tailed ...
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Inferno Snuggles and Other Bad Decisions
Audience: Dark or intense
Cinder wants to thank the woman who rescued him. Unfortunately, his plan involves an ancient forge, an iron heart and giving away the one thing keeping him w...
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The Day the Dragon Hatched in Her Hands
Audience: All readers
An unexpected hatching leaves a stubborn woodland guardian holding a dragon—and a forest’s worth of assumptions. She will care for the hatchling. The terms a...
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The Laughing Pact of Mossroot Hollow
Audience: All readers
In Echoterra’s Mossroot Hollow, gnome Thimblewick and golden dragon Fizzwick discover that laughter can travel deeper than a roar. When the buried Echo Pulse...
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Song of the Spotted Sky
Audience: All readers
Pip can borrow the forest’s melody. Listening is the difficult part. A spotted owl-dragon, a blunt bat and a remarkably patient sky turn a stolen solo into a...
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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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Snuggle Scales
Audience: All readers
A dragon tired of being everyone’s adorable mascot finds an unexpected friend at a birthday party—and a way to visit without giving up the right to say no.
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Blossomfire Hatchling
Audience: All readers
A tiny meadow queen faces foxes, hunters and her own unreliable fire. When kindness arrives in an unlikely shape, Blossomfire discovers a gift she cannot yet...
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