The Seedpod That Fired Before Anyone Was Ready
Audience: Grown-up humor
A Sugarwild seed ceremony bursts ahead of schedule. Adult seed tender Mira must save scattered seedlings while the garden turns her mishap into a very public...
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Theme: Rumors and Secrets
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Theme: Rumors and Secrets
9 published tales
The Blossom That Left a Mark
Audience: Grown-up humor
A bright pollen mark makes Vellin the subject of the garden's most suggestive rumor. Redveil meant to send a message, and her seedlings need him to hear it b...
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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 Gumdrop Gnat Who Went Too Deep in the Nectar Cup
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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The Moss-Crowned Turtledrake of Whisperroot Hollow
Audience: All readers
When Thimblewump, the moss-crowned turtledrake of Whisperroot Hollow, overhears an ancient warning and mangles it into full pond-wide scandal, gossip becomes...
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The Blushberry Earwig Who Heard Too Much
Audience: Grown-up humor
A nosy blushberry earwig overhears one tiny secret, repeats it with catastrophic flair, and accidentally turns Blushberry Bend into a gossip-soaked disaster ...
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The Taffy-Tailed Peepdragon of Unsupervised Blooming
Audience: All readers
A sticky-toed peepdragon with a candy-colored tail is blamed when the Sugarwild Garden’s First Sparkles begin vanishing before dawn. But in The Taffy-Tailed ...
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The Jewel-Eyed Jester of Pollenwick Hollow
Audience: All readers
When Blixby Glimmergob arrives at the prestigious Bloom Ball, Pollenwick Hollow’s most refined evening promptly collapses into shimmer sap, scandalous trumpe...
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The Gilded Gaze of the Dewdrunk Hatchling
Audience: All readers
A tiny, jewel-toned hatchling perches atop a dew-soaked bloom—and accidentally becomes the most feared (and wildly misunderstood) ruler the garden has ever k...
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