The story archive
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
580 published tales
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,...
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Audience: Dark or intense
Twenty-seven cobalt mooncaps keep an ancient hunger sealed beneath Vesper Vine. When one guardian disappears and the vine begins consuming its reservoir of s...
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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...
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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...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Mirella Mosswhistle asks the ancient Amethyst Moth for true love and receives Bramble Fen, a kind, wonderfully imperfect moonbee keeper. When Mirella returns...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Thimblewick Porridge wakes after the Midnight Spore Festival with one missing boot, a dog full of evidence, and an alarming number of mayoral obligations.
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Audience: Dark or intense
At Midnight Abbey, even the ghosts have manners — until a pack of loud relic hunters barges in looking for treasure and threatens the crystal-winged bat who ...
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Audience: Dark or intense
When Stormvale’s roads begin vanishing and the castle starts learning gravity the hard way, the Garnet-Horned Ram is forced to descend from the mountain and ...
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Audience: Dark or intense
A sacred ivory wolf guards Bloodleaf Pass, but when Castle Varrican tries to bind him with old bloodleaf magic, the mountain answers with teeth, shattered gl...
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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...
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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...
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Audience: Dark or intense
A vain noble arrives at the Mirror Pines to claim a throne he absolutely does not deserve, armed with a forged bloodline, a ridiculous crown, and the emotion...
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Audience: Dark or intense
When the Thornwing Pegasus returns to Dawnreach, the kingdom expects a noble champion, a grand ceremony, and a destiny dressed in expensive nonsense. Instead...
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Audience: Dark or intense
When Lord Vauston tries to steal Redspire’s crown, its rubies, and frankly the whole damn kingdom, the Embermane Griffin refuses to bow—and that single act o...
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Audience: Dark or intense
A spoiled prince comes to Glassmere seeking proof that he was born for greatness, only to receive a catastrophic vision from a moonmoth oracle with ancient p...
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