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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Standalone Tales
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The story archive
Standalone Tales
672 published tales
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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Whispers of the Luminara Bloom
It started, as all ridiculous forest tales do, with a flutter, a sparkle, and someone complaining about pollen. “I swear to every sap-sticky deity in this w...
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Ash and Bloom
The Barbecue Incident Every 500 years, the Phoenix of the Verdant Flame rises from the ashes to restore balance, inspire mortals, and—let's be honest—get at...
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Lullaby in a Leafdrop
It’s a little-known fact—scrupulously left out of most fairy tales because of its messiness and alarming wetness—that fairies are not born in the traditiona...
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Tiny Roars & Rising Embers
Of Smoke Rings and Sass-Fueled Friendships Once upon a high-ass noon in the middle of a nowhere-meadow that smelled suspiciously of toasted daisies and regr...
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Tiny But Ticked Off
The Stump Situation In the middle of the Bellowing Pinewood, just past the grumpy willow who swore at birds and before the mossy rock that looked suspiciousl...
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Pounce of the Poison Cap
The Shroom with a View It began, as most ridiculous tales do, with a purring lie and a daring squat atop a toadstool the size of a barstool. Tabitha Nine-Li...
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Ribbit in Bloom
The Blooming Problem Floberto was not your average frog. For starters, he hated mud. Absolutely despised it. Said it squelched between his toes in a way tha...
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Whirlwind of Wings and Wonder
The Feral Bloomchild of Snapdragon Row There was a ruckus in the garden again. Not the usual kind—the bumblebee karaoke, the tulip gossip circles, or the oc...
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The Girl Who Listened to Owls
In a fog-drenched forest where silence has a voice, a quiet girl discovers she can hear what others cannot—the whispers of owls, and the truths they carry. B...
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Garden of Devotion
In a tiny, vine-wrapped village just past the last mushroom on the left, nestled somewhere between “What the heck was that?” and “Did that bush just wink at...
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Pale Messenger of the Void
There are names not spoken aloud in the village of Vareth’s Hollow—names so old they cannot be traced in any written tongue, only whispered beneath breath a...
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The Keeper of My Love
The Lock, the Key, and the Gnome Who Knew Too Much The wedding was at exactly 4:04 PM. Because gnomes are not known for being punctual, but they are known f...
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