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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Setting: Courts and Festivals
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Setting: Courts and Festivals
16 published tales
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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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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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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Queen Peepblossom and the Unauthorized Crown Sprout
Audience: All readers
When Peepblossom wakes up with an unauthorized crown sprouting from her head, Bloomhush Garden promptly loses its tiny bureaucratic mind. Accused of treason ...
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The Trumpet Imp Who Announced Himself Twice
Audience: Grown-up humor
When Tibbs Blarefoot, the trumpet imp of Pompadoodle-on-Fleece, announces Lord Pootlewick’s festival decree twice, he accidentally triggers an ancient civic ...
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Madame Nectarwink and the Scandalous Sip
Audience: All readers
Madame Nectarwink’s unauthorized sip from the Grand Pink Columbina sends Flutterfen Hollow into a full-blown gossip war of pearl-clutching butterflies, rebel...
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The Pink Chameleon Duchess of Dewdrop Drama
Audience: All readers
In The Pink Chameleon Duchess of Dewdrop Drama, a jeweled little garden diva enters the Great Blossom Beauty Pageant expecting an easy crown, only to face a ...
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The Jewel-Eyed Jester of Pollenwick Hollow
Audience: All readers
When Blixby Glimmergob arrives at the prestigious Bloom Ball, Pollenwick Hollow’s most refined evening promptly collapses into shimmer sap, scandalous trumpe...
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The Fiery Pout
Audience: All readers
Fizzlewick has standards, a spectacular pout and absolutely no room for visitors—until Aunt Gloam arrives with suspiciously good fudge and a talent for woodl...
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Pastel Awakening
Audience: Grown-up humor
Yolanda hatches into Wickerwhim’s spring prophecy with a brunch demand and a skeptical side-eye. Can a snack treaty stop a marshmallow rebellion before anyon...
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A Trio of Springtime Mischief
Audience: All readers
Pip, Poppy, and Gus plot to steal Echoterra’s First Bloom. A botched heist earns them ruffled festival uniforms, a long day of work, and one very large idea ...
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Emerald Majesty and the Cheerful Rider
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Grizzle Thimbletwig and Scorchbutt arrive at Copperwake Reach’s Festival of Bright Wings ready to dazzle the crowd. When the river wind turns their flight in...
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Baby Dragon’s Dazzling New Year Bash
Audience: Grown-up humor
An uninvited dragon, an expensive cheese plate and one doomed champagne tower. A grown-up New Year comedy about the guest nobody planned for.
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The Gnome and the Harvest Crown Stag
Audience: All readers
At Emberwood Forest’s Harvest Festival, Wimble Leafwhistle’s clever magic sends acorns skittering and the parade shimmering out of rhythm. Chestnut sets the ...
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