‘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 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…
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…
There was a gift on the table. A small box, neatly wrapped in brown parcel paper and twine and a little tag that read ‘Happy birthday!’, unsigned. She unwrapped it…
Every day she added to the jar. Just a thin layer of dirt at first. Then grass. A bit of moss. Seedlings. Sticks. A flower. She pooled water into a…
You pant as you crest the mountain. Before you lays a vast, still lake, so clear and so brilliant in the setting sun that it appears full of pink clouds…
Beneath a hazy golden sky, you slide down from your forest boulder perch, the soft moss protecting you from scrapes. ‘Prrreek!’ You glance back to see a flash of gold…
‘Our scanners are picking up an anomaly.’ ‘Give us a visual.’ Empty starscape blinked onto the screen. Distant stars like glitter. None of the expected confetti of asteroids. No planets…
I held perfectly still. A breeze shook the tree; I shook with it. ‘Hehehe,’ I said. ‘They’ll never even know I was here …’ The goblins below frowned up at…