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Aurora Guardian Rising

Aurora Guardian Rising

Audience: All readers

A late-winter aurora transforms into a celestial guardian who recruits Dani—reluctant, sarcastic, and running on caffeine—to help jumpstart spring. What foll...

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Holiday Hijinks in Red Velvet

Holiday Hijinks in Red Velvet

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Every holiday season needs a bit of chaos — not enough to derail Christmas, just enough to keep the reindeer humble and the elves slightly traumatized. And ...

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Gobsmacked in the Glade

Gobsmacked in the Glade

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The Lily Pad Incident At precisely “oh no o’clock,” a rainbow-haired goblin named Peeb discovered that lily pads are terrible chairs and even worse life choi...

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The Clockwork Primate

The Clockwork Primate

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The Gilded Banana Heist In the dim belly of the Brass Bazaar — a market so thick with steam you could butter toast on the air — there lived a monkey who refu...

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Song of the Spotted Sky — a spotted owl-dragon with amber eyes and spread wings on a forest log, Unfocussed Captured Tales.

Song of the Spotted Sky

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Pip can borrow the forest’s melody. Listening is the difficult part. A spotted owl-dragon, a blunt bat and a remarkably patient sky turn a stolen solo into a...

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The Punk Pixie Manifesto

The Punk Pixie Manifesto

Audience: Grown-up humor

Wing Maintenance & Other Threats I was elbow-deep in wing glue and bad decisions when the messenger hit my window like a drunk moth. Shattered glass. Con...

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The Iron Jester of the North

The Iron Jester of the North

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Ale, Axe, and Absolutely No Quiet They said you could hear him coming before you saw him — a deep, booming laugh that rolled through Frostvik’s frozen stree...

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The Winged Promise

The Winged Promise

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There are certain mornings when the world feels suspiciously optimistic. The air hums, the clouds look like they’ve been freshly laundered, and somewhere, so...

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The Kiss That Creates Worlds

The Kiss That Creates Worlds

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The Birth of the Ocean Dream The hotel smelled faintly of salt and old paint. Not the comforting kind of paint, the one that reminds you of fresh renovations...

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The Tree Remembers

The Tree Remembers

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The Audit of Seasons At dusk, the four-seasons tree stood in a desert that looked like someone had forgotten to water the planet for a few millennia. The sk...

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Tideborn Majesty

Tideborn Majesty

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The Splash Heard 'Round the Realms By the time the unicorn hit the water, the Kingdom of Larethia was already in trouble. Taxes were up, pants were down, an...

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