The Wink That Got Away With Everything
Audience: Grown-up humor
A mischievous Sugarwild sprite wins a kiss and a wish from the night-bloom keeper. Her glowing garden fantasy leaves him bound to an impossible task, and kee...
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The Dewdrop He Swore He Could Handle
Audience: All readers
A tiny garden show-off promises to carry a dewdrop across a bellflower bridge. When the petal bends and the whole garden watches, he discovers that the harde...
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Sir Petalgrip and the Fold He Should’ve Respected
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Petalgrip volunteers a pair of wonderfully capable hands and promptly puts the rest of himself somewhere inadvisable. With a rainkeeper flower, a thirsty...
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Madame Sucklewink and the Nectar Bead That Hung On Too Long
Audience: Grown-up humor
Madame Sucklewink calls in a discreet botanist to solve one stubborn garden problem. But with a sticky bloom, a pipette, and nosy neighbors nearby, this priv...
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Sir Nectarback and the Petal That Took It Personally
Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Nectarback awakens inside a possessive Belladazzle with no trousers, a vicious hangover, and one catastrophic gap in his memory. The entire Sugarwild Gar...
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The Honey-Lipped Budnewt Who Couldn’t Swallow the Evidence
Audience: Grown-up humor
When a notorious nectar beetle is found crushed beneath a moonpetal, Niblick Budmouth is discovered hiding nearby with the victim’s jeweled wing wedged betwe...
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The Velvet-Bellied Peepfrog Who Got Stuck in the Wrong Slot
Audience: All readers
Pippleslot considers himself a visionary with unusually flexible hips. But when his latest shortcut leaves him wedged inside Madame Blushcurl’s prize bloom, ...
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Madame Nectarlash and the Unsolicited Drip
Audience: All readers
A suspicious golden drip, a stolen stash of Royal Glownectar, and a rival with the world’s most irritatingly perfect alibi send Madame Nectarlash deep beneat...
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The Pollen-Slapped Peepdrake Who Asked One Question Too Many
Audience: Grown-up humor
After one ill-advised question earns Pibbit a faceful of enchanted pollen, the nosiest Peepdrake in Blushroot Hollow can suddenly hear every secret the garde...
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The Dewslumped Budling Who Needed Two Hands and a Prayer
Audience: Grown-up humor
After waking trapped inside Madame Belladew with both hands locked to the rim and no memory of the night before, one spectacularly dewslumped budling learns ...
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The Blushroot Snaillet Who Left a Suspicious Shine
Audience: All readers
When Pipette Blushroot wakes to a Level Seven ribbon of suspicious shine across Petal Nine, the Department of Unauthorized Moisture quarantines her home, cla...
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The Gumdrop Newt Who Got Caught Tongue-First
Audience: All readers
Gumdrop Newt believes one elegant lick cannot possibly cause trouble. Then his tongue becomes firmly attached to the richest glowing blossom in the garden, a...
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The Honey-Slick Peepfrog Who Licked the Wrong Drip
Audience: Grown-up humor
Pipdrizzle is a turquoise Peepfrog with a crooked hat, an unruly tongue, and absolutely no respect for unattended nectar. When one forbidden golden drip acti...
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The Blushroot Peepdrake Who Found the Warm Spot
Audience: Grown-up humor
A tiny peepdrake discovers the warmest flower in Sugarwild Garden and refuses to surrender it, even as the blushroots begin drawing dangerous heat from the E...
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Countess Dewpucker and the Questionable Nectar Kiss
Audience: Grown-up humor
A staged kiss at Queen Honeyblush's Nectar Ball leaves Countess Dewpucker publicly engaged to shy nectar steward Basil Bumblewick. To reclaim the scandal—and...
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