Laughter in the Dark
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The Lantern-Bearer Appears Everyone in the village of Mirewood knew the rules about the forest. The elders taught them in school, the barkeep scrawled them o...
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Gutterglow Faerie: A Lantern for the Damned
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The Lantern Liar The fae courts called her a disgrace. The humans called her a hallucination. But down in the alleys behind the alchemist's vape shop, they ...
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Crimson Balloons and Broken Souls
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On the stone we sat, back-to-back, as though the world had split us in half and forced the two pieces to lean against one another to keep from collapsing alt...
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The Pumpkin Sprite
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The Brat of the Patch They called her The Pumpkin Sprite, though if you asked anyone who had suffered her company, the term “sprite” was far too generous. Sp...
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Acorn Express Airways
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Sprig Thistlewick opens a one-seat airline in Lower Glandrick, where the roads are long and his flight plan is written on a leaf. His pilot, Helix, is an equ...
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Hammer of the High Skies
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There are rules for gnomes. You don’t speak loudly in public unless you’re selling onions. You don’t drink before noon unless it’s mead (in which case it do...
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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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The Acorn Avenger
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The Gnome, The Nut, and the Nonsense Somewhere in the leafy middle of nowhere, between the edge of “don’t go in there” and “oh hell, why did we come in here...
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Snuggle Scales
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A dragon tired of being everyone’s adorable mascot finds an unexpected friend at a birthday party—and a way to visit without giving up the right to say no.
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Blossomfire Hatchling
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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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Nebula-Winged Wisdom
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The Owl Who Knew Too Much In the beginning — before calendars, before clocks, before that awkward invention of “daylight savings time” — there was only the ...
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Squeaky Clean Scales
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Marvin expects bath-time rebellion. His hatchling Crispin discovers bubble crowns, a very offended rubber duck and enough ridiculous joy to soak an entire ba...
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The Leviathan of Crimson Fins
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The Contract, the Boat, and the Bad Idea I signed the contract the way every bad adventure begins: with a cheap pen, a good whiskey, and a promise I absolut...
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Guardian of the Painted Feathers
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The Night the Forest Blinked The forest didn’t go dark; it went quiet—the kind of hush that makes even the moths put on slippers. High on a braid of oak limb...
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Ritualist of the Forgotten Forge
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The Circle No One Sweeps The village had long since stopped asking why their forge was haunted. Honestly, it was easier to pretend that the glowing sigil ca...
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