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Gilded Dreams in Twilight Woods

Gilded Dreams in Twilight Woods

Audience: Dark or intense

The first rule of being a fairy queen? Don’t eat the glowing mushrooms. The second rule? Absolutely don’t stare into the abyss of a bioluminescent mushroom’s...

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Ascension of a Broken Heart

Ascension of a Broken Heart

Audience: Dark or intense

A Love Torn by Fate The rain fell in an endless cascade, each drop a quiet requiem against the shattered headstones. The world was silent but for the weeping...

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Wings of Power, Tides of Fate

Wings of Power, Tides of Fate

Audience: All readers

The wind howled over the churning sea, whipping through the jagged cliffs and sending waves crashing against the rocks. Above the stormy expanse, a dozen pow...

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Rise of the Solar Phoenix

Rise of the Solar Phoenix

Audience: All readers

The world had forgotten the old ways. It had grown complacent beneath the artificial glow of its own creations, blind to the ancient cycles that governed exi...

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A lime-green and blue hatchling with orange wings in a luminous forest, beneath the Unfocussed Captured Tales title Neon Hatchling of the Deepwoods.

Neon Hatchling of the Deepwoods

Audience: Grown-up humor

An accountant follows a peculiar impulse into the glowing Deepwoods, loses his lunch to a tiny dragon and discovers that friendship works better when everyon...

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The Elf and the Dragon's Meeting

The Elf and the Dragon's Meeting

Audience: Grown-up humor

Deep in the Enchanted Forest, where the toadstools were as large as wagon wheels and just as sturdy, an elf named Lila stumbled into a peculiar predicament. ...

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Heartfelt Whimsy in Bloom

Heartfelt Whimsy in Bloom

Audience: All readers

Under the glow of a heart-shaped luminescence deep within the Enchanted Briarwoods, a pair of gnomes sat together on a mossy log, their hands almost—but not ...

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