When a woman brings home a small tattered tapestry from a flea market and treats it with care, the tapestry begins to respond…
Music: “Magic Within” by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)
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Video Description: “The Transmuting Tapestry” Trailer. Duration, 39 seconds. “Magic Within” by Andrew Sitkov. Digital drawing. A figure at center in a long cloak stands in an open field with a dark wood behind. The image is bordered at the sides with leaves in various shades of green. The figure looks off to the right of image, with left arm across and right arm just visible holding one edge of the cloak. A braid hangs from her right shoulder. A crown sits on her head. She has blade-like wings extending from her back. Her face is human, but her ears are wolf-like, and a cat’s tail emerges from one side of the cloak. At right, within a glowing spot, a smiling face is visible. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Fairy Tale,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “When a woman brings home a small tattered tapestry from a flea market and treats it with care, the tapestry begins to respond…” Lines from the story appear in sequence at bottom: “It wasn’t the fairy queen who first caught my eye. It was the glimpse of a laughing face, glowing in some dim reflection in the dark lush forest behind, its deep green shadows holding more magical mysteries, every wonder found in the natural world, and wonders beyond ordinary fantasies.” Site URL appears at bottom right throughout and fades at end. Animations: At 27 seconds a bright light emanates from the figure, outlining the wings, and the glow from the wings seem to flap slightly. The title appears at center, shifting colors. A text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For the tenth year, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
April Base Element:
🐉🧚🏽♂️ FAE-PRIL! 🧚🏽♀️✨

FUSION RECIPE
Base element for April: The Fae (Fairies)
Fusion Element: Head of a dinosaur skeleton (tyrannosaur)
Cheating! I’ll admit that the fusion element makes the most nominal of appearances in the story. There, now you know. Make what decision ye will in deciding whether or not to read this story about someone finding the magical in the ordinary…or, what seems to be ordinary.
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Transmuting Tapestry,” from a sketch to the final image.
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Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 19 seconds. Digital drawing. A figure at center in a long cloak stands in an open field with a dark wood behind. The image is bordered with leaves in various shades of green. The figure looks off to the right of image, with left arm across and right arm just visible holding one edge of the cloak. A braid hangs from her right shoulder. A crown sits on her head. She has blade-like wings extending from her back. Her face is human, but her ears are wolf-like, and a cat’s tail emerges from one side of the cloak. At right, within a glowing spot, a smiling face is visible. At bottom, a butterfly sits on one leaf, and a lizard clings to another. Both are green and blend in with the leaves. Text at bottom reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a portion of the starting sketch. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at top right. All the text and the final image fade to show the full starting sketch. The video transitions through several images showing the sketch, inking, laying down of base colors, addition of shadows, highlights, and textures, and finally the addition of a background to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Transmuting Tapestry” appears at bottom. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears vertically along left of image throughout.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Tags: Face, Fairy, Fairy Queen, Grow, Laughing, Step, Tapestry, Transmute,
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