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Digital drawing. Bottom left corner, a frog seen from behind, sitting on a rock, surrounded by blades of grass. In front of the frog is a human looking down at the frog with her right hand on her chin, left hand propped on her hip. She wears boots, bloomers, a long coat, and a cap with a feather in it. At right is a tree whose branches and leafy canopy extend over the head of the human and droop down to the ground line. Through the branches, in the distance, is a flying pig facing forward. At bottom right are bushes of unusual and bright colors. They curved around the base of the tree.
THE FROG WHO FOILED THE FANTASTICATOR
Genre: Fable

Rare are the fantasticators, who can by their very presence bring about the emergence of the fantastic from the most common of things and the most mundane of people.

Digital drawing. A creature who appears to be half human and half wolf with dark fur and red eyes crouches upon the foggy ground, right leg bent behind and left leg propped in front, facing forward, mouth open, arms resting upon legs.
THE WOLF AND HIS CIRCLE OF SISTERS

When a child is born cursed, his family tries every remedy they can find, but one of his siblings believes the answer lies within the curse itself.

GENRE: FAIRY TALE

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Digital drawing. A cat seen from right side at an angle, sitting upon a rock in the midst of waters. The cat appears like a cougar, but with green thorny ridges along the back and tail. The tail is long, and loops of it emerge from and descend into the water. The cat’s glowing green eyes look forward. Clouds hang in the overcast sky above.
THE lake of the nightmare cat

Three brave rats embark on a voyage across a vast lake that is rumored to be haunted by a monstrous cat..

GENRE: FABLE

Digital drawing. A creature that looks like a bird with nine visible heads. The body is seen from the left side, wing feathers extended out, long tail feathers flowing back, and legs loosely folded. The colors and patterns of the bird appear like that of a golden pheasant. The color of the beaks differ between some of the heads. The heads are arrayed in different positions, some in profile, some looking and facing forward. The bird is surrounded by a crackling glowing energy.
THE TEN TERRIBLE HEADS OF SHI XIN NIAO

Ten terrified youths are abducted by a bird with ten terrible heads, who plans for them a doom worse than death.

GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

Digital drawing. A bull facing forward and seen from an angle on the left side. The bull has a black pelt, red eyes, glowing blue horns, and a slightly parted mouth. Shaggy hair falls down the bull’s ears and forehead. The bull stands on fog-covered grassy ground. Behind is the surface of a body of water. Above is a night sky glowing with moonlight from upper right.
GLORMADARCK

A strange calf with a strange power is born to an ordinary cow, and is cared for by a keeper who envisions an ordinary use for that power.

GENRE: FAIRY TALE

Digital drawing. Part of a sail whose braided border is being pierced by a needle. The sail sits on the lap of a person whose left hand grips a section of the braided border and whose right hand, equipped with a sailmaker’s sewing palm, directs the need through the braid of cloth. An image is stitched onto the sail and is partially visible, the body of a serpent entangled around a boat with one sail unfurled at bottom center and middle. At bottom right, the serpent’s head with mouth parted, looking at the ship.
JACQUERY TATTERY MAKER OF SAILS
Genre: Fantasy

Jaquery Tattery was born at sea, and he grew up in a town far from the sea, and all he wanted to do was return to the sea.

Digital drawing. A right whale seen in left profile, floating in midair in a cloudy sky with sunset colors.
THE WATCHERS OF THE WHALE
Genre: Fantasy

The mayor of a modest harbor town struggles to deal with the appearance of a whale in the sky above the ocean.

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Five Days of Felines highlighted five stories featuring cats from 5/11/21 to 5/16/21

Six Days of Love highlighted six stories of romantic love from 2/9/21 to 2/14/21.

The Frog Who Foiled the Fantasticator – Storyfeather

  1. The Frog Who Foiled the Fantasticator
  2. Jacquery Tattery Maker of Sails
  3. The Watchers of the Whale

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