Tea With a Twist of Madness
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Welcome to the Unhinged Hour The teacup trembled in his hand, but not from age or tremor. Oh no, that wasn’t his style. This was deliberate—an invitation. A ...
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Blush of the Bog
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The Puddle Prowler There are fairies. There are elves. There are even goblins with decent posture and good credit scores. But what most people don’t know is...
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Sassy Shroom Shenanigans
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Tongue Wars and the Forest Code of Sass In the deepest thicket of the Glibbergrove, where mushrooms grew big enough to get parking tickets and squirrels wor...
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Teatime Tides
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The Steepening There was a mermaid in Margot’s teacup. Now, you may think that’s the kind of sentence best reserved for children’s books or individuals who ...
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The Unicorn Keeper
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Deep in the Thistlewhack Woodlands, just past the grumbling bogs and that one suspiciously carnivorous mushroom grove, lived a girl named Marnie Pickleleaf....
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Love Beneath the Morning Glory
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The Bloom Boom Affair It began on a wet Tuesday. Not the dramatic, lightning-splitting, thunder-belching kind of wet. No. This was the gentle kind of wet th...
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Between Pencils and Planets
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Froggert Van Toad and the Infinite Sketchpad By all accounts, Froggert Van Toad had lived a rather normal life for a frog who’d recently transcended dimensi...
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A Moment Between Waves
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The Ledge Between Two Worlds Beneath a sea that never stayed still and a sky that never quite forgot her name, there lay a ledge — weathered by tide, forgott...
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The Fiery Pout
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Fizzlewick has standards, a spectacular pout and absolutely no room for visitors—until Aunt Gloam arrives with suspiciously good fudge and a talent for woodl...
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Whiskers at the Witching Window
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The Familiar's Complaint “If one more squirrel insults me from the holly bush, I swear to Bast I’ll torch the tree.” The orange tabby was muttering again. H...
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Stormcaller of the Moonspire
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The Roar Before Thunder The villagers of Draumheim had long whispered of the being that lived beyond the reach of men. Above the black pine forests and acro...
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The Laughing Muse
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The Scandalous Rebirth of Seraphina Muse Long before she became a muse, Seraphina was a minor chaos deity assigned to the Bureau of Spontaneous Laughter. He...
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Don't Make Me Puff
Audience: Grown-up humor
Snortles wants conquest. The forest offers him an internship. When a giant cursed hare arrives, a tiny dragon discovers what all that tea-kettle practice was...
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Flame-Bird and Fang-Face
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The Fire-Bird and the Fang-Fool Deep in the Whisperwood, where trees mutter rumors about squirrels and moss throws shade like a drag queen at brunch, lived ...
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Fluff & Flutter
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A Noseful of Chaos In the land of Flitterwhump, where dandelions danced to jazz and tea kettles gossiped at dusk, there lived a kitten named Toodles. Yes, T...
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