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Year Eight Stories

  • The Wandering Winsome
  • The Book of the Fairy Azurine
  • The Dark Organ Factory
  • The Whereverwalker
  • The Seven Rings of Necessity
  • The Gingerbread Guard
  • A Crown of Moonbeams
  • Oddnever
  • The Lemonuclear Conductor
  • Pocket Pies From the Pocket Dimension
  • Salis and Dulcine
  • Two Tickets to Dream Sector Disigma
  • The Last Voyage of the Echidna
  • The Magnificenting Glass
  • Pragmata Agnosta
  • A Specter in Amber
  • Why Beauty Sought the Beast
  • The Once-God Rampion

Year Seven Stories

  • The Automated Fortune Line
  • The Swallow Who Was A Willow
  • The Obsidian Tusks
  • John's Fellow Passengers
  • Roxie's Wake-Up Call
  • The Curse of the Tooth Demon
  • A Wish Upon the Fountain Fish
  • The Mage, the Troll, and the Gold Coins
  • The Renegade D.O.R.K.S.
  • The Treasure of Gilda
  • That Which Dragons Guard
  • What the Tiger Remembered
  • The Reptilian Vaudevillians
  • The Thorn Clock
  • Welcome to Thoughtsburger
  • Panofus
  • Magenta Banana
  • Mausefalle Manor
  • The Nanocosmetologist
  • The Moths in the Moon
  • The Galactic Analyst
  • Opossumillo
  • A Most Discourteous Interview
  • The Mind Beyond the Maze
  • My Food Is Speaking to Me
  • The Ogre and the Elf Go To Honeymoon City
  • A Tale of Nine Lemons
  • The Everyday God Who Wished To Sleep
  • The Celestial Gobbler
  • Draugamunninn
  • The Nimasterion
  • Nine Wishes in Three Tales
  • The Mystery of Washing Machine Three
  • When Sun and Moon Fled the Sky
  • The Drummer for Discordance
  • They Linger in the Deep
  • The Waking of J
  • The Cat That Haunted the Mouse
  • The Children of the Rain and the Sun
  • The Incident at Soruquenty Beach
  • Auroramorphosis
  • Jukebox Time Portal
  • Seven Signs of Impossible Times
  • When Serendipity Met the Flower
  • Stranded in the Green and Gold
  • Madeleine Miriam's Pizzapothecarium
  • The Hippocampus and the Menagerie
  • The Juggling Ghost Crab
  • Baron Raven's Magnificent Gift
  • Through the Woods at Night
  • The Mad Tunnel
  • Evil Edie's Surprise Demise

Year Six Stories

  • The Frog Who Foiled the Fantasticator
  • Madam Pantoflae
  • Castle Farouche
  • The Station Companions
  • The Why Winter Challenge
  • Contest Chevelure
  • The Holiday Truce on Stage 34
  • The Visitor on the Valorous
  • The Moonbroch
  • Lost and Found at the Hotel Gloaming
  • The Piecemeal Cake
  • Lexinkeo
  • Starling and Leveret
  • Into Stasis
  • The Antechamber
  • The Shifting Night Anomaly
  • The Magic Triptych
  • The Hollow Temple
  • Behind the Hour
  • The Thief, the Fairy, and the Raven
  • The Mystery on Marigold Drive
  • A Handbook of Universal Truths
  • The Impassable Valley of the Flowers
  • Letter From Self
  • Happy Anniversary, Forever
  • The Watchers of the Whale
  • Longpocket
  • The Bombinating Engine
  • The Fairy Blackberry
  • The Cavern Traveler
  • Astral Andie is Angry
  • The Mystery of Mrs. Highweather
  • Velutinus
  • Jacquery Tattery Maker of Sails
  • The Forest of the Dasollagi
  • The Solar Pepper
  • Lord Orgulous
  • The Last Honest Vampire
  • Lickspittle and Sobersides
  • The Traveler and Her Three Shadows
  • The Last Wish of Caducus the Wizard
  • A Simple Procedure
  • The Cosmic Hourglass
  • All the Mirrors Are Broken
  • The Mora
  • Elevator 6F
  • The Galvanic Ghost
  • Maugre Death We Walk
  • Lodgers in the Attic
  • A Waking Walker in Slumberland
  • A Tiny Man in a Giant Land
  • A Coat for Many Dimensions

Year Five Stories

  • Panfloria Magnifica
  • Spectral Camera Model 57
  • The Singing Safecracker
  • Princess Number Four
  • The Transmutation of Mister Lang
  • This Egg Is Not An Egg
  • Mokkie's Double Diner
  • When The Androids Asked For Hearts
  • Hideous Horace and Beautiful Boris
  • Attack of the Giant Cyclops Worm
  • Inseparate
  • The Remedy Men
  • Lesson Number Undefined
  • The Thief of All Sounds
  • Prosopokaf's Fusion Cream
  • The Black Dwarf Star
  • The Plotz Hole
  • Gamma's Forever Soup
  • The Strange Chamber
  • Anomaly Valley
  • The Architect and the Aristocrat
  • Flickering Frieda
  • Festival of the Triumphant Locks
  • Mysterious Tracks in the Snow
  • One Killer Jacket
  • The Serpent Who Sang Like A Bird
  • The Porphyrion Machine
  • Midnight 45
  • The Mythical Slug
  • The Flight of Flea
  • I Dreamed A Cookie
  • Cloaked in Clay
  • Rise of the Prokaryotes
  • The Salvage of Core 925
  • The Chosen By Chance Dance
  • Transpogum
  • I Surgery
  • Sam and The Sequence
  • Mrs. Santi's Prism Mask
  • The Brontide Beast
  • Neotrillium
  • An Aphid Named Quintillion
  • A Sewing Machine From 1919
  • The Blinding of the Mice
  • The Lady in My Headphones
  • The Caves of Hephaestus Island
  • The Eleventh Arm
  • Mission ICE 19
  • Humans: A Blorgnathian Delicacy?
  • The Haunted Harpsichord
  • The Unstrange Face in the Mirror
  • The Monstrous Men of the Moors

Year Four Stories

  • Age Upon Age of Frozen Sleep
  • The Mirror of Displacement
  • The Incident of the Imp
  • The Quest of Nine Days
  • Unstable Stones
  • Dragons of Verandering
  • April Majus
  • The Fortunate Little Leaf
  • Forsaken Deep
  • The Seeds of Many Worlds
  • Amphora Incarnate
  • The Captain's Creature
  • Giant's Overlook
  • The Watchers of the Western Observatory
  • The Stratus Class Dirigibles
  • Stromascope
  • Sal Saturn and the Planetary Rangers
  • Professor Gadston
  • Breninglas
  • The Makriaziton Mechanism
  • The Door Beneath the Desert
  • The Purple Dust Mine
  • Fanfaronnade
  • The Fairy Between Light and Dark
  • Prisoners of Spiral
  • Ximrahet
  • Marv and the Ghost Shark
  • Summoner of Clowns
  • Sword of the Giant Wizard
  • Doctor Miratio's Cabinet of Imminent Invention
  • Heroes of Anodos
  • The Terrible Mallard
  • Gliese on Earth
  • Nerochroma
  • Great Persidain
  • The Fall of the Mirror-god
  • How The Troubadours Came To Be
  • Mynotragon
  • Chemoimagination
  • Tranenbloud Island
  • The Feast of Paravirneo
  • The Meek Mountain Peak
  • Six Fools and the Dragon
  • My Homunculus Is Malfunctioning
  • The Daring MacAllisters
  • The Riddle of Hyperion
  • Goodhorse Manor
  • The Fly Upon My Mantel
  • The Hunter and the Crypt
  • The Midvale Experiment
  • The Lost Treasure of the Arcadian
  • How I Defeated the Devourer

Year Three Stories

  • The Adventure of the Goliath
  • The Sovereign of Bevoneberg
  • A Potion of Uncertain Fortune
  • The Prince's Proxy
  • Two Tales of Twisted Tradition
  • Alora and the Dream Sand
  • Subway to Yesterday
  • Detective Day
  • The Song That Haunted Sally
  • The Nowhere Coat
  • Bloodhound Brody
  • The Twice-Enchanted Fleece
  • The Protean Scroll
  • The Singing King
  • Mynah
  • The Map of All Worlds
  • Mortesthesia
  • The Cursefall
  • Titan Matter
  • The Wizard of All Ways
  • The Curse of the Gray Hunger
  • The Villager of Tolkus
  • Esmeralda Auricle
  • Oddness and the Rose Pox
  • The Temple of the Gentle
  • The Accountant of Breaths
  • The Never Challenge
  • Dotty Potsy
  • The Phantom and the Imaginary
  • The Lodger and the Host
  • The Lovelocke Fortune
  • Amoeba: A Modern Fable
  • The First Days of Moonlight
  • The Queens of Silk and Apple
  • The City Beyond the Horizon
  • The Legend of Lampaneer
  • The Brothers Joye and Sorow
  • Lantern Light
  • The Smiling Fishwife
  • MacAlastair's Marvelous Photosynthesizing Hominid
  • Glorianova
  • The Magus Node
  • Brother Winter
  • The Blood of Tantalus
  • Alexandra Thrice Was Born
  • Red Hat, Red Cloak
  • The Guardians of Gorgulya
  • The Elementals Gathered
  • A Fairy With A Soul
  • The Waters Are Deep
  • Tortoise, Cheetah, and Lightning
  • The House Where Emmeline Slept

Year Two Stories

  • Glass Guitar Girl
  • A Sword Named Blasphemy
  • The Stone of Plenty
  • Copper Penny
  • The Traveling Gloves
  • The Abacus of Dreams
  • The Queens of Time
  • The Rainheralds
  • A Helm of the Elephant Guard
  • Glyfarien's Tongue
  • The Robot Sphere
  • Where Is Speed's Shadow?
  • Carapace
  • Siren's Song
  • The Defiant Little Giant
  • The Wolf Chair
  • The Witch Rampion
  • The Good Doctor's Tears
  • The House of Frogs
  • Pestilence
  • Substance F-8
  • The Tooth Fair
  • The Shallow Book
  • The Wayfarer's Buckle
  • The Blacksmith's Bucket
  • Felicia Incantata
  • The Archivist of Farthest Star
  • Olatrogon
  • The Prisoner Under The Sea
  • Modern Blood
  • Princess Automaton
  • The Three Invincibles
  • The True Tale of Jack Sprat
  • Chainmaker
  • The Last Seven Wishes
  • Finden's Egg Pocket
  • A Cup of Youth
  • My Lucky Stick
  • A Cage for A Curse
  • The Telescope of True Sight
  • Mission Beyond The Veil
  • Crimson and King
  • The Shallot Pot
  • The Challenge of the Hand
  • The Hamelin Hunter's Pipe
  • A Ladder Into The Clouds
  • Ogre Queen
  • The Midnight and the Derelict
  • The Merchant and the Magician
  • Vanessa
  • The Crown of the Sky-God
  • The Feather of Arke

Year One Stories

  • The Amber God
  • Trifle House
  • Radwin and the Dragon
  • Phantom Heart
  • Ignotus
  • The Last of the Nine Lives Cats
  • The Dolls
  • The Mind-Mover
  • The Crimson Hood
  • The Wandering Star
  • Pertempus
  • Diamond White
  • The Ghostly Knight of Thessa
  • Dragonfly
  • Imberflos
  • Spidercake
  • The Iolyran Serpent
  • The Dreaming Queen
  • The Great Machines
  • Who Is Sylvia?
  • The Scorpion Mouse
  • A Gildenfaere's Gift
  • Daydreamer
  • The Promethians
  • Argilla
  • Nine Hundred Nine Furies
  • Star Cloud Descendant
  • The Bard of Trilenkary
  • The Potion of Allegory
  • Nocturnal
  • The Saltwater Realm
  • Mages, Thieves, and Destroyers
  • The Iris
  • The Queen Remembered
  • The Water Bell
  • The Green Magic Bean
  • The Three Circles
  • The Sorceress Moray
  • Heliotrope
  • The Blue Magic Stew
  • Roland
  • Death and The Healer
  • The Everwalker
  • Vela Natura
  • Thirteen
  • Godsfear
  • The Mirror of Liriope
  • I'm Vanishing
  • The Belly of Boston
  • Salamander
  • The Isle of Mist and Gloom
  • The Red Magic Dread
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They Linger in the Deep

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There was a youth, who had lived for twenty summers, and he passed by a pool, a pool so still and clear that when he caught his own reflection on its surface, he was startled.

He was drawn. Continue reading

  • Date July 5, 2020
  • Tags enchantment, mermaid, narcissism, nymph, Reflection, youth
  • Comments 2 Comments
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