The story archive
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
11 published tales
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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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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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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Audience: Grown-up humor
After fourteen nectar refills, Gumdrop wakes with a stolen gossip ledger and no memory of how he acquired it. With Petunia Pinksip and Madame Crumblewing, he...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Lady Blushmidge arrives at Bloomberry Court expecting tea and leaves coated in suspicious pollen, implicated in a reproductive scandal, and chasing a sticky ...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Glissabelle Gaspurtle witnesses Lord Slipperoot backing out of Widow Honeystem’s flowerbed with his waistcoat open, his trousers compromised, and nectar drip...
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Audience: All readers
A jeweled beetle wakes beside a missing sacred relic and becomes the garden’s flashiest suspect. To clear his name, Buttonwing must dive into shady mushroom ...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
A tiny flower-crowned crab with big glossy eyes and an even bigger ego becomes the accidental center of a Sugarwild Garden legend when her flair for dramatic...
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Audience: All readers
Miss Sparklecheeks is many things - fabulous, shameless, suspiciously well-moisturized - but she insists she is not a nectar thief. When the Royal Dewdrop Re...
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Audience: All readers
When Bipple Flounce, the glitter-gilled goblin of Gumdrop Cove, is framed for a scandalous forbidden bubble bath and the theft of the sacred Fizzy Pearl, he ...
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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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