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…
As she made her way to the greenhouse, poppies and peonies turned their heads to follow her. Inside, succulent plantlings unpotted themselves and tottered over on mobile roots to crowd…
‘Is that … a human?’ We crowded around the snivelling thing, bald and pink as a baby rat. I flicked my ears at my sister; she quirked her whiskers and…
She screamed as she walked through the door and something heavy landed on her head. ‘Surprise!’ trumpeted the dragonling. ‘I got you! I got you!’ She picked up the dragon…
They found it curled between two pebbles. A mouse, eyes closed, hands curled, with perfect, brilliant blue fur. Questions crowded their mind, the most important: was it okay? When the…