The Witching Hour Went Sideways
Audience: All readers
The little dragon had a crooked broom, a red cloak, a pointed hat and one simple errand to finish before midnight. Then a moth found the broom's shiny bell, ...
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Theme: Courage
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Theme: Courage
14 published tales
The Buttercup Boglet With the Emergency Smile
Audience: All readers
When Boddle the buttercup boglet is accidentally crowned during Bloomspittle Pond’s most chaotic ceremony, his emergency smile becomes everyone’s problem. No...
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The Dewdrop Dragonfly Who Forgot How Wings Work
Audience: All readers
When Pip Glimmerflit, Sugarwild Garden’s most dazzling dewdrop dragonfly, suddenly forgets how wings work, one embarrassing crash turns into a full-blown gar...
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Tooth & Twinkle
Audience: Grown-up humor
Reginald wanted a quiet life. Twinkle wanted to fly. One meddling wizard and a disastrous canyon trial turn their unwilling partnership into something danger...
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Blossomfire Hatchling
Audience: All readers
A tiny meadow queen faces foxes, hunters and her own unreliable fire. When kindness arrives in an unlikely shape, Blossomfire discovers a gift she cannot yet...
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The Rosebound Hatchling
Audience: All readers
A rose-sized dragon arrives with no name, unreliable wings and plans for an empire. An affectionate tale of audacity, awkward landings and growing into your ...
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Rage from the Egg
Audience: Dark or intense
A newly hatched dragon leads a nervous photographer toward a bell beneath the forest—and an ancient claim neither of them intends to accept quietly.
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Baby Scales in a Fur-Trimmed Coat
Audience: All readers
Scalesworth’s coat is enormous. His snowball travels three inches. But when an ice golem appears, this shivering hatchling discovers that a little nerve can ...
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Nestled in a Rainbow's Embrace
Audience: Dark or intense
Elara enters the forest prepared to steal a dragonling for her brother’s cure. A rainbow blanket, a watchful mother and one freely given scale force her to f...
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Guardian of Ember in a Frosted World
Audience: All readers
A weary firekeeper and a little red dragon enter a city held in winter. Ashera brings the ember; Seraphis finds the small way through that strength alone can...
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A Dragon’s Gentle Awakening
Audience: Grown-up humor
Newly hatched Ziggy has a sharp tongue, tiny wings and serious complaints about his first morning. Two stranded travelers give him a reason to stay—and teach...
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The Gilded Wyvern: Alchemy of Fire and Fate
Audience: All readers
Aithon has a legendary name, splendid wings and trouble reaching the kitchen stool. When Sólaris loses its lantern flame, a small apprentice discovers what b...
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A Gnome's Highway to Adventure
Audience: All readers
Thornbeard and Jup-Jup cross Echoterra’s Copperwake Reach in search of a once-in-a-century cactus bloom. The journey asks whether sharing a story means givin...
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Spectral Exterminator
Audience: All readers
A small dragon, a glowing ghost and a very unusual night shift. Zypher brings ingenuity and steady nerves to a haunted town in this standalone Ghostbusters-i...
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