The Nectar-Slumped Peepfrog of Questionable Decisions
A tiny nectar-slumped peepfrog wakes up sticky, dazed, and accidentally worshipped after one glowing sip too many. Now Pipkin Spogglewort must survive garden...
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Absurd
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Absurd
36 published tales
The Buttercup Boglet With the Emergency Smile
When Boddle the buttercup boglet is accidentally crowned during Bloomspittle Pond’s most chaotic ceremony, his emergency smile becomes everyone’s problem. No...
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Lady Lollywhisk and the Petal of Poor Decisions
When Lady Lollywhisk licks the one sacred petal she was very specifically told not to lick, Sugarwild Garden erupts into magical personality-swapping chaos. ...
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The Buttonwing Beetle Who Forgot He Was Fancy
A jeweled beetle wakes beside a missing sacred relic and becomes the garden’s flashiest suspect. To clear his name, Buttonwing must dive into shady mushroom ...
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The Trumpet Imp Who Announced Himself Twice
When Tibbs Blarefoot, the trumpet imp of Pompadoodle-on-Fleece, announces Lord Pootlewick’s festival decree twice, he accidentally triggers an ancient civic ...
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Zipped Between Hurt and Heaven
A single tear became a universe she tried to hide. In Zipped Between Hurt and Heaven, grief doesn’t disappear—it blooms, quietly and beautifully, into someth...
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The Mechanical Heart Hidden in Honeycrisp Lies
A mysterious orchard, a jeweled beetle, and a forbidden apple with a glowing mechanical heart—what begins as curiosity quickly turns into a seductive bargain...
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The Prismwing Collector of Shiny Regrets
A glittering butterfly feeds on human bad decisions—until one choice looks back and traps it inside the consequences it once devoured. The Prismwing Collecto...
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Prismatic Lotus Harmonics
In Prismatic Lotus Harmonics, a physicist detects a mysterious deep-space signal that resolves not into noise—but into a living blueprint of reality itself. ...
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Casting Lines Beneath a Bleeding Moon
When the moon begins to bleed molten fire into Blackwater Lake, two cloaked fishermen cast their lines—not for fish, but for the hardened shards of humanity’...
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Empress of the Frosted Branch
Empress of the Frosted Branch is a winter tale of survival, silence, and authority earned without asking. In a frozen forest ruled by noise and panic, one ca...
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The Kiss That Creates Worlds
The Birth of the Ocean Dream The hotel smelled faintly of salt and old paint. Not the comforting kind of paint, the one that reminds you of fresh renovations...
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The Rooster’s Bloom
The Blooming Begins Once upon a time (and probably three chardonnays deep), in the sleepy village of Cluckminster, lived a rooster unlike any other. His nam...
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Tea With a Twist of Madness
Welcome to the Unhinged Hour The teacup trembled in his hand, but not from age or tremor. Oh no, that wasn’t his style. This was deliberate—an invitation. A ...
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Pounce of the Poison Cap
The Shroom with a View It began, as most ridiculous tales do, with a purring lie and a daring squat atop a toadstool the size of a barstool. Tabitha Nine-Li...
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