Curly Mischief and Meadow Gifts
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In Echoterra’s Dandelion Hollow, four-and-three-quarter-year-old Pip’s daisy trade tangles with the local bee court. A careful apology, a meadow of seedlings...
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Watcher of the Fractal Rift
Audience: Dark or intense
The Contract of Bones and Bubbles Every few centuries, the ocean forgets how to lie. When that happens, it sends something ancient to the surface—just briefl...
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A Glimmer in the Grove
Audience: Grown-up humor
Elira wanted breakfast, not a luminous hatchling with opinions about cheese. Pip needs more than protection from a cage: he needs someone who comes back when...
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Echoes in Bark and Bone
Audience: All readers
The Tree That Dreamed of Flesh Long before the sky was called the sky, before even names had names, there stood a tree upon the spine of the world. Its roots...
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Heaven's Apex Predator
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The Silence Before the Storm There were no birds in the sky. No insects sang in the dunes. No wind to stir the silence. Only heat—searing, smothering, ancien...
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Whispers of the Luminara Bloom
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It started, as all ridiculous forest tales do, with a flutter, a sparkle, and someone complaining about pollen. “I swear to every sap-sticky deity in this w...
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Ash and Bloom
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Fernessa the Combustible returns to Emberwood Forest after five centuries with a spark, a sharp opinion about nettle mash, and one very local grove in need o...
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Lullaby in a Leafdrop
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It’s a little-known fact—scrupulously left out of most fairy tales because of its messiness and alarming wetness—that fairies are not born in the traditiona...
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Tiny Roars & Rising Embers
Audience: Grown-up humor
An adult pocket dragon and a reborn phoenix go looking for cheese and accidentally acquire a cult, a raccoon grievance and a friendship built to survive both.
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Tiny But Ticked Off
Audience: Grown-up humor
Crispin T. Blort wants respect, a quiet stump and absolutely no tutu. Two meddling gnomes give him glitter instead—and Pinewood gets a revolution with jazz h...
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Pounce of the Poison Cap
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The Shroom with a View It began, as most ridiculous tales do, with a purring lie and a daring squat atop a toadstool the size of a barstool. Tabitha Nine-Li...
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Ribbit in Bloom
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The Blooming Problem Floberto was not your average frog. For starters, he hated mud. Absolutely despised it. Said it squelched between his toes in a way tha...
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Whirlwind of Wings and Wonder
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The Feral Bloomchild of Snapdragon Row There was a ruckus in the garden again. Not the usual kind—the bumblebee karaoke, the tulip gossip circles, or the oc...
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The Girl Who Listened to Owls
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In a fog-drenched forest where silence has a voice, a quiet girl discovers she can hear what others cannot—the whispers of owls, and the truths they carry. B...
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Garden of Devotion
Audience: Grown-up humor
In Mossbottom, Barnaby and Glimmer plan a garden vow renewal that welcomes music, listening, and quiet corners alike. When a grumpy Mossfather wakes beneath ...
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