She ought to kill it. A shroomling. Fox-like with a body of gnarled, animated dead wood. Back covered in a bright, ominous carpet of mushroom caps. Hollow eyes with points…
‘If you release me, I will grant you a wish,’ said the fish to the fisher. The fisher shook their head. ‘No wish necessary.’ They slid the fish back into…
The huntress froze, bowstring taut, arrow fletching pressed against her cheek. The forest had eyes. As she watched, the mossy hill stood up. The woody shrubs became antlers. The moss…
They gave her a pet rock as joke. A lonely pet for a lonely woman. She grew fond of it anyway. She greeted it every morning when she turned off…
The green and growing things gathered in the greenhouse. They shuddered their leaves and rasped their roots, communicating as only plantlings can. In the ivy-covered house beyond, the plant mage…
He collapsed, exhausted, in a spray of dirt and mulch. He’d run too long and too hard through the Wastes, past monsters with too many teeth and watchers with too…
She was in love with the lake. With the murky waters and spiralling dust lit up like stars in the sickly sunbeams. With dark fish that darted around her, curious…
The lizard peered into the pond, tilting their head from side to side. Instead of a little brown creature with a pointed muzzle and splayed toes, their reflection was a…
The brothers had been through much together. They had passed through dark forests and escaped only by holding tight to the other’s hand. When separated in the labyrinth, they had…
They stared at each other, boy and unicorn. In the background, his mentor clenched his fists. ‘Look away, boy! Before it imprints! Unicorns are not for you.’ The boy reached…