Pale Messenger of the Void
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There are names not spoken aloud in the village of Vareth’s Hollow—names so old they cannot be traced in any written tongue, only whispered beneath breath a...
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The Keeper of My Love
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The Lock, the Key, and the Gnome Who Knew Too Much The wedding was at exactly 4:04 PM. Because gnomes are not known for being punctual, but they are known f...
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Queen of the Forsaken Soil
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The Screaming Soil The land was wrong. Not just haunted, not just cursed. It screamed. Beneath the brittle roots of leafless trees, under stones older than ...
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Leaf Me Be, I'm Fabulous!
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Once upon a mossy morning in the grand, gossip-ridden undergrowth of the Lower Fern District, there lived a fuzzy, flamboyant caterpillar named Dandy. Not j...
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My Dragon Bestie
Audience: Grown-up humor
Max brings home a dragon. His parents bring their last remaining patience. From suburban smoke alarms to Dragonland diplomacy, one unlikely friendship turns ...
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Cradle of Copper Veins
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There are stories the trees tell long after the last leaf has fallen. Stories whispered not in words, but in sighs of wind and flickers of gold that dance b...
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Twilight Tickle Sprite
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In the hush of the Golden Glade — that rare patch of forest where twilight always lingers just a little too long and the frogs sound like they've had a few t...
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Tails from the Train Station
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Barkley Gets the Boot Barkley W. Barkington was not your average Yorkie. He wasn’t bred for handbags, and he sure as hell didn’t take orders. No, Barkley was...
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Stillness Under the Sporelight
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The Girl Who Didn't Blink It is said—by unreliable drunks and slightly more reliable dryads—that if you wander too far into the gloom-glow of the Bristlebac...
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The Split-Pawed Snorticorn
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The Cursed Cupcake Incident In the heart of the Bewildering Wood — a place where reality tended to forget its pants — there lived a kitten named Fizzle. But...
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Wizard of the Four Realms
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Embers of the Pact In the lands before clocks, before kings, before carpets that flew or taxes that didn't, there lived a wizard known only as Calvax. Not a ...
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Madame Mugwort’s Morning Ritual
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The Brew Before the Boom Madame Mugwort did not tolerate interruptions before her first cup. Not from the crows, not from the spirits in the attic, and espe...
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Last Call at Gnome O’Clock
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The Pint-Sized Provocateur There are taverns, and then there’s The Pickled Toadstool, a place so off-the-grid not even Google Maps could find it. Buried ben...
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Cranky Wings & Cabernet Things
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The Root of All Sass The forest hadn’t always been this irritating. Once upon a century or three ago, it was a quiet, dewy glade where deer pranced, squirre...
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The Howling Hat of Hooten Hollow
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The Hat That Bit Back By the time Glumbella Fernwhistle turned ninety-seven-and-a-half, she’d stopped pretending her hat wasn’t alive. It gurgled when she ya...
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