Pepper Dominatrix
The Grinding Hour The steak lay there—thick, glistening, and just a touch too smug. Marbled in all the right places, it had spent the better part of the day...
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Audience: Grown-Up Humor
Fifteen illustrated stories appear on each archive page, newest first.
The story archive
Audience: Grown-Up Humor
102 published tales
Salty and Savage - Fork Me Gently
Stab Me, Daddy At first glance, it looked like an ordinary drawer. Just your typical mix of dull butter knives, clingy teaspoons, and that one suspiciously s...
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Overeasy and Overjoyed
Toast with the Most It was 7:03 AM in the Kingdom of Kitchenville, and Breakfast had just rolled out of bed — sticky, steamy, and undeniably over-easy. The t...
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Scrub Me Silly
The Dirty Origins In a modest bathroom somewhere between “hipster chic” and “what the hell is that smell?”, a bar of soap had enough. Day in, day out, he was...
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Warchanter of the Forgotten Plains
The Chanter's Curse The Forgotten Plains hadn’t always been called that. Once, long ago, they were the Heartlands—sacred hunting grounds where the sky bled ...
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Grumpy Rain Sprite
A Sprite's Soggy Misery It had been a perfectly pleasant morning in the enchanted forest—until, of course, the sky decided to have a breakdown. One moment, t...
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Mystic Feathers and Cosmic Light
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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The Grumpy Guardian of the Glade
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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The Elf and the Dragon's Meeting
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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Daisy Days and Ladybug Portraits
The Fairy with the Lens As the golden sun dipped low, painting the fields in amber hues, Trixie the fairy perched herself atop a daisy, armed with her prized...
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Baby Dragon’s Dazzling New Year Bash
Baby Dragon’s Wild New Year Bash It started as a classy affair. The table was set with fine champagne, golden candles flickering gently, and an obnoxious am...
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Meditative Whiskers of Light
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
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
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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Twinkle Scales and Holiday Tales
Snow had blanketed the forest in a thick, sparkling cover, the kind of snow that made you question every life decision leading up to a trek through it. In th...
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