Moonshroom Mischief: A Gnome’s Night Out
Audience: Grown-up humor
Adult gnome Clyde heads into the moonlit Great Whispering Woods with a bottle, a boast, and a truly dreadful plan for the first thing that looks rideable. Th...
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The Floral Jester's Solitude
Audience: All readers
Once upon a time—because everything always seems to start with “Once upon a time” and I’m not about to break tradition—there was a clown. And not the fun ki...
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Mystical Feline in Enchanted Forest
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Some things just don't make sense in life: how you can go from binge-watching TV to hiking in an enchanted forest in the blink of an eye is one of them. Seri...
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The Littlest Flame: A Dragon's Heartwarming Beginnings
Audience: All readers
Smidge has enormous feet, a determined heart and a fire-breathing technique best described as a hiccup. With help from his mother and a watercolor-loving tro...
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Crimson and Shadow: A Love Torn by the Tempest
Audience: Dark or intense
The storm had been brewing for centuries, but tonight it was angrier than ever. The skies above churned with violent clouds, crackling with lightning that th...
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Pumpkin Grove Guardians: Gnomes Under the Harvest Moon
Audience: All readers
In a far corner of the enchanted forest, where the trees whispered secrets and the pumpkins grew a little too perfectly round, lived two gnomes. Their names...
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The Harvest Hoot: Owl’s Autumn Adventure
Audience: All readers
In the heart of the forest, where the trees were ablaze with autumn colors and the ground was a patchwork quilt of crunchy leaves, there lived a very peculia...
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Celestial Coil: Guardian of the Winter Skies
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In a realm where time curled like smoke and the stars hummed old, forgotten songs, there existed a dragon unlike any other. This dragon, coiled in eternal sl...
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Inferno of the Wild: Guardian of the Enchanted Grove
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In the depths of the enchanted forest, time flowed differently. Trees whispered secrets from centuries past, and the very air buzzed with ancient magic. And ...
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The Mush-room for Debate
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In Mossbottom, Bramble believes mushrooms belong in nearly everything; Gilda believes supper should leave room for other ingredients—and her mushroom-free te...
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Resting in the Light of Legends
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A clumsy silver dragon meets an ancient phoenix with a dry sense of humor. Between doubtful landings and quiet autumn evenings, Ash and Ember find a friendsh...
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Gotham's Firebreathing Hero
Audience: Grown-up humor
A bat-themed dragon tackles a jewelry-store robbery with confidence, claws and terrible flame control. Gotham gets its rescue—and a considerable repair bill.
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The Flame-Furred Dragonling
Audience: All readers
Boris goes looking for a fortune and comes home with Fizzle, a tiny pink dragon with a talent for accidental fires. Returning a stolen egg's occupant may tak...
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The Enchanted Reptile
Audience: All readers
The Legend of Chromix: The Enchanted Reptile In a distant realm where forests shimmered with rainbow hues and rivers flowed with liquid light, lived the lege...
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Street Chic Fairy in Pink Kicks
Audience: Grown-up humor
Street Chic Fairy in Pink Kicks: A Tale of Misadventures and Magical Mishaps Once upon a time, in a world where fairy dust and fashion collided, there was a...
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