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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...

The Dewdrop He Swore He Could Handle

Audience: All Readers

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...

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...

Forest Park Keeps Another Season

Audience: All Readers

When Autumn refuses to surrender Forest Park, Winter arrives with freezing winds, official paperwork, and no patience for unfinished trees. Their dispute awa...

Sir Quilliam’s Demonstration of Aggressive Affection

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,...

The Coralwood Path Beneath the Tidal Moon

Audience: Dark or Intense

Relic thief Orren Vey arrives at Coralwood carrying twenty-seven stolen memories and a plan to rob the Tidal Moon. But the living staircase remembers every c...

Her Majestys Most Suspicious Little Tart

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...

The Emerald Stair of the Sleeping Fern

Audience: Dark or Intense

Orin Vale sees a fortune in the Emerald Stair, where an enchanted fern tends the dreams of sleeping strangers. But cutting those desires free awakens a recko...

The Dewslumped Budling Who Needed Two Hands and a Prayer

Audience: Grown-Up Humor

After waking trapped inside Madame Belladew with both hands locked to the rim and no memory of the night before, one spectacularly dewslumped budling learns ...

The Blushcap Budbeetle Who Found the Wrong Opening

Audience: Grown-Up Humor

When Blip Blushcap gets flung off course during the Morning Dew Roll, he crawls into the wrong pink bloom and finds Maribelle, a nervous dawn hedge flower af...

The Honeybutter Bogbean Who Winked at the Wrong Flower

Audience: All Readers

When Honeybutter Bogbean tries to charm his way into the Buttercup Brunch with one polished smile and a questionable wink, the entire bog mistakes his nervou...

The Raspberry-Nosed Glowmite Who Forgot to Dim

Audience: Grown-Up Humor

A tiny glowmite with a raspberry nose and absolutely no chill accidentally ruins a midnight snack raid, exposes a royal pollen scandal, and learns that somet...

The Blushcap Leafhopper Who Blinked at the Worst Possible Moment

Audience: Grown-Up Humor

When Nibbin the Blushcap Leafhopper blinks during the Hundredth Grand Bloom Portrait, one tiny eyelid turns a sacred garden tradition into a candy-colored pu...

The Cloudberry Bridge at Dusk

Audience: All Readers

Beneath the glow of The Cloudberry Bridge at Dusk, two sisters uncover an old promise their grandmother never fulfilled—and a hidden bridge village still wai...

The Silverwyrm Who Curled Around a Secret Kingdom

Audience: Dark or Intense

A silver dragon has curled around the hidden kingdom of Moonveil for two centuries, keeping its ruins, ghosts, nobles, and secrets from being devoured by the...