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The Grumpicorn's Garden

The Grumpicorn's Garden

Audience: All readers

The Curse of the Eternal Mood In the heart of the Enchanted Woodland, nestled between the Gigglebrook River and the Whimsydale Meadow, lay the most peculiar ...

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Pip, Poppy, and Gus attempt a moonlit First Bloom heist at Cherrywake Common in Echoterra.

A Trio of Springtime Mischief

Audience: All readers

Pip, Poppy, and Gus plot to steal Echoterra’s First Bloom. A botched heist earns them ruffled festival uniforms, a long day of work, and one very large idea ...

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The Grumpiest Unicorn-Kitten

The Grumpiest Unicorn-Kitten

Audience: All readers

The Grumpiest Unicorn-Kitten’s Most Unfortunate Quest Once upon a very irritated time, in a realm where the flowers were too perky, the fairies were too chat...

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Old Magic and Stale Ale

Old Magic and Stale Ale

Audience: All readers

The Pint of No Return Gorbwick the Grumpy Fae was having a day. A long, painful, gods-forsaken kind of day. The kind of day that made him question why he ev...

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Grinning green hatchling Scorch raises a paw on a forest log beneath the Paws, Claws, and Dragon Flaws title.

Paws, Claws, and Dragon Flaws

Audience: Grown-up humor

Bramblewick’s newest menace has tiny wings, sticky claws and no respect for personal property. Fiona steps in—but making Scorch her apprentice may be her wor...

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Rainbow Plumage & Petal Dance

Rainbow Plumage & Petal Dance

Audience: All readers

The Diva of the Garden Spring had finally arrived, and with it, the annual awakening of the garden. The bees were back on their pollination grind, the flower...

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Mystic Feathers and Cosmic Light

Mystic Feathers and Cosmic Light

Audience: Grown-up humor

Once upon a particularly weird Tuesday night, somewhere between a dream and an ill-advised fourth glass of wine, an owl named Professor Hootsworth McFluffing...

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Inferno Fang & Ocean Vein

Inferno Fang & Ocean Vein

Audience: All readers

The Awakening The legend was whispered in alleyways, scribbled in the margins of forbidden texts, and told in hushed voices among those who knew better than ...

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Aged Like Fine Wine and Dark Magic

Aged Like Fine Wine and Dark Magic

Audience: Dark or intense

The problem with being an immortal fae wasn’t the magic, the wings, or even the centuries of unpaid taxes. No, the real issue was the hangovers. The kind tha...

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Earth’s Fury, Earth’s Grace

Earth’s Fury, Earth’s Grace

Audience: Dark or intense

There is a story whispered among the mountain towns of the Pacific Northwest, a tale the old hunters refuse to tell after dark. They call it The Burning Bear...

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Interstellar Harmony

Interstellar Harmony

Audience: All readers

The universe wasn’t always an empty void speckled with stars. Before time itself was counted, before the first atom trembled into existence, there were the K...

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Koi of the Cosmos

Koi of the Cosmos

Audience: All readers

The sky had turned to water, or perhaps the water had swallowed the sky. It was impossible to tell. Stars shimmered beneath the surface of the river, and the...

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The Grumpy Guardian of the Glade

The Grumpy Guardian of the Glade

Audience: Grown-up humor

Deep in the heart of the Eldermoss Forest, where the trees whispered gossip about the birds and the mushrooms glowed suspiciously at night, there existed a t...

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