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Feline Firekeeper

Feline Firekeeper

Audience: All readers

The alley was dimly lit, cobblestones slick from the evening rain. A faint golden glow spilled from the horizon, catching the edges of the shadows that crep...

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Mushroom Monarch in Winter

Mushroom Monarch in Winter

Audience: All readers

Deep within the frostbitten woods of the Wibbly Wobbly Forest—where nothing is quite as it seems—there lived a peculiar little creature known as Fizzlefrump...

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A visibly amused adult gnome in a red and gold striped cap raises a toast beneath colorful New Year fireworks in a bright, snow-covered Echoterra forest clearing.

A Gnome’s New Year Revelry

Audience: Grown-up humor

At the edge of Echoterra’s Great Whispering Woods, one grumpy adult gnome throws a New Year’s party for himself—and answers the shared Echo Pulse on his own ...

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Rosy Lips and Wrinkled Sass

Rosy Lips and Wrinkled Sass

Audience: All readers

The New Year crept in with a quiet drizzle, but for Gladys, it was an occasion to make noise—and a lot of it. She sat in her plush pink armchair, donned hea...

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A sleeping pink dragonling nestled in rainbow wool inside a wicker basket beneath the Nestled in a Rainbow's Embrace title.

Nestled in a Rainbow's Embrace

Audience: Dark or intense

Elara enters the forest prepared to steal a dragonling for her brother’s cure. A rainbow blanket, a watchful mother and one freely given scale force her to f...

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Inferno Meets Eden

Inferno Meets Eden

Audience: All readers

On the final night of the year, when the world holds its breath for the dawn of a new beginning, the ancient forces awaken. Long before the modern countdowns...

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The Enchanted Duchess of Wings

The Enchanted Duchess of Wings

Audience: All readers

Deep in the heart of the Autumnwood Forest, nestled between sass-talking birch trees and gossiping oaks, lived Seraphina, the Duchess of Wings. Oh, don’t le...

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Lush Life, Burning Soul

Lush Life, Burning Soul

Audience: All readers

She awoke in the twilight between life and destruction, a being caught in the eternal push and pull of the elements. Her name was Ashara—a myth whispered by ...

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Meditative Whiskers of Light

Meditative Whiskers of Light

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Hippie’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions Another year, another trip around the sun. That’s what I told myself as I sat on my meditation pillow in the co...

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Lantern Light and Holly Delight

Lantern Light and Holly Delight

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Day After Christmas: The Gnome Chronicles The day after Christmas dawned cold and bitter. Snow still clung to the pine branches outside the gnome’s hut, ...

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Guardian of Changing Times

Guardian of Changing Times

Audience: Grown-up humor

The Dragonfly’s New Year’s Resolution It was December 31st, and deep within the forest, where the trees whispered secrets and the rivers chuckled like gossip...

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