All Captured Tales

The story archive

Setting: Enchanted Forests

Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.

The story archive

Setting: Enchanted Forests

24 published tales

Laughing red-haired fae Fennella and her red shoulder dragon beneath the Sunlit Shenanigans Captured Tales title.

Sunlit Shenanigans

Audience: Grown-up humor

Fennella Bramblebite and her pocket dragon turn a honeycake picnic into a courtroom disaster. With banishment looming, a trial by satire offers one last chan...

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Pip, a curly-haired young fae, holds daisies in the spring meadow of Dandelion Hollow in Echoterra.

Curly Mischief and Meadow Gifts

Audience: All readers

In Echoterra’s Dandelion Hollow, four-and-three-quarter-year-old Pip’s daisy trade tangles with the local bee court. A careful apology, a meadow of seedlings...

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Fernessa the phoenix in Emberwood Forest, her ember-red and gold feathers blending into vivid green leaves and new growth.

Ash and Bloom

Audience: All readers

Fernessa the Combustible returns to Emberwood Forest after five centuries with a spark, a sharp opinion about nettle mash, and one very local grove in need o...

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Magnus Bloomwhiff smiles over a colorful tulip bouquet beneath the titles Unfocussed and Captured Tales: Florals and Folklore.

Florals and Folklore

Audience: All readers

At Mossbottom’s Equinox Bloom-Off, Magnus Bloomwhiff’s pollen-bright bouquet awakens every flower in the Great Whispering Woods. With cousin Fizzle’s help, h...

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Adult gnome couple Buck and Pet laugh with a curious Fuzzle in Blushblossom Grove, where soft Echo Pulse ripples shimmer through the mushrooms.

Grin and Gnome It

Audience: Grown-up humor

In Echoterra’s Blushblossom Grove, Buck and Pet’s date night takes a glittering turn when one lost Fuzzle awakens a forest-wide chorus.

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A visibly amused adult gnome in a red and gold striped cap raises a toast beneath colorful New Year fireworks in a bright, snow-covered Echoterra forest clearing.

A Gnome’s New Year Revelry

Audience: Grown-up humor

At the edge of Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods, one grumpy adult gnome throws a New Year’s party for himself—and answers the shared Echo Pulse on his own ...

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A white-bearded gnome rides beneath the rainbow-lit wings of Zuzu, a jewel-toned hummingbird, through the Great Whispering Woods of Echoterra.

Riding the Rainbow Hummingbird

Audience: All readers

A reckless wager sends Grimble and Zuzu soaring through Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods. When they find the Golden Nectar, they discover the best reward i...

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A vivid cobalt, coral, and gold Prismfeather sings in a rose-filled Mossbottom conservatory while an older sparrow listens.

A Feathered Serenade Amid Roses

Audience: All readers

Sir Featherington arrives in Mossbottom with a voice made for grand entrances and a belief that every garden needs his applause. When Harold the sparrow refu...

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Whiskers, the amber-shelled snail, carries red-hatted Gnorman through Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods as a gold-and-teal rhythm travels through the roots.

The Gnome and the Snail Express

Audience: All readers

In Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods, Gnorman and Whiskers turn a pixie-dust prank into an honest rematch and a new musical mail route from Mossbottom to Lo...

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