Love Beneath the Morning Glory
The Bloom Boom Affair It began on a wet Tuesday. Not the dramatic, lightning-splitting, thunder-belching kind of wet. No. This was the gentle kind of wet th...
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Standalone Tales
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Standalone Tales
669 published tales
Between Pencils and Planets
Froggert Van Toad and the Infinite Sketchpad By all accounts, Froggert Van Toad had lived a rather normal life for a frog who’d recently transcended dimensi...
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A Moment Between Waves
The Ledge Between Two Worlds Beneath a sea that never stayed still and a sky that never quite forgot her name, there lay a ledge — weathered by tide, forgott...
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The Fiery Pout
The Temper of Twigsnap Hollow It was the first crisp day of autumn in Twigsnap Hollow, and that meant three things: the leaves were aflame with color, the sq...
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Whiskers at the Witching Window
The Familiar's Complaint “If one more squirrel insults me from the holly bush, I swear to Bast I’ll torch the tree.” The orange tabby was muttering again. H...
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Stormcaller of the Moonspire
The Roar Before Thunder The villagers of Draumheim had long whispered of the being that lived beyond the reach of men. Above the black pine forests and acro...
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The Laughing Muse
The Scandalous Rebirth of Seraphina Muse Long before she became a muse, Seraphina was a minor chaos deity assigned to the Bureau of Spontaneous Laughter. He...
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Don't Make Me Puff
In the deepest corner of the Mistwillow Woods — somewhere between the Glade of Passive-Aggressive Mushrooms and the Barking Fern Grove — sat a dragon. Not j...
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Flame-Bird and Fang-Face
The Fire-Bird and the Fang-Fool Deep in the Whisperwood, where trees mutter rumors about squirrels and moss throws shade like a drag queen at brunch, lived ...
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Fluff & Flutter
A Noseful of Chaos In the land of Flitterwhump, where dandelions danced to jazz and tea kettles gossiped at dusk, there lived a kitten named Toodles. Yes, T...
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Curly Mischief and Meadow Gifts
The Petal Hustler of Dandelion Hollow In the sprightly green blush of early spring, the meadows of Dandelion Hollow woke up with a sneeze. Literally. One sn...
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Watcher of the Fractal Rift
The Contract of Bones and Bubbles Every few centuries, the ocean forgets how to lie. When that happens, it sends something ancient to the surface—just briefl...
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A Glimmer in the Grove
The World’s Most Inconvenient Miracle The dragon was not supposed to exist. At least, that’s what they told Elira back in the Overgrown Library, between must...
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Echoes in Bark and Bone
The Tree That Dreamed of Flesh Long before the sky was called the sky, before even names had names, there stood a tree upon the spine of the world. Its roots...
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Heaven's Apex Predator
The Silence Before the Storm There were no birds in the sky. No insects sang in the dunes. No wind to stir the silence. Only heat—searing, smothering, ancien...
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