The cat pounced with claws extended upon her unsuspecting human’s bare feet. ‘Ouch!’ the human cried. ‘Not today, Satan!’ The cat’s enlarged pupils shrank, and her excited wiggle stilled. She…
‘What do you wish?’ whispered the well. The girl hesitated. A hundred wishes sprang to her lips: food, shelter, friends. Friends! But there was something sad about the well. She…
One goblin stood outside another’s cave, listening to the shrieking, growling, and crashing from within. ‘Cup!’ called the goblin. ‘I’m coming!’ She picked up a stick and rushed in, waving…
Two goblins walked a secret path. Pot gnawed on something, loud and scratchy. Cup’s ears twitched once. Twice. They frowned at Pot. ‘What is that?’ Pot shrugged. ‘Some kind of…
Two goblins met in a swamp. Pot gnashed her pointy teeth and pulled at her longsome ears. Cup stomped their tiny feet and boggled their bulbsome eyes. ‘My swamp!’ Pot…
When you close your eyes, you see it. Golden towers skirted by lush forests. The glint of a thousand windows lit like lanterns. A shine so bright it turns the…
‘Don’t go out on the moors,’ said the mistress of the house. She giggled and flounced away. For a long time, she didn’t, instead frowning out of the glitter-framed windows…
The mist here thickens. Though sunlight pierces the autumn-sparse forest canopy, it does little too alleviate the chill. You pull your coat more snugly about you and rub your hands…
You are reading beneath an old oak tree when you hear it. Trilling, somewhere between a bird cry and a cricket chirp, coming first from your left and then from…
‘At last, I have done it!’ The mage spread their hands and cackled at the night sky. ‘I have swept aside the veil of unlife and created a minion capable…