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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I hear hot honey is the latest thing. Im not sure, so I ask for a small pot on the side. Its a confusing meal as the amber liquid twists and turns out of its little ramekin, morphing into sexy shapes and gyrating in my direction. "Are people really into this?" I ask "You bet" it glugs with a wink

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At first, everyone loved the Instant Karma Café. Coffee that made you cough. Order a steak and the waitstaff argued with you because they had beef. Shakes that made you shake. It's too bad they decided to offer smash burgers. Business was flat after that...

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Peppermint hot chocolate in delicate china cups. This cozy concoction will make you feel like you're experiencing the first snowfall. One only you can see. Watch fluffy flakes swirl around you and feel the crisp breeze on your cheeks. Like seeing the world from inside a snow globe.

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Pretty embroidery wall art. I've collected scenic forests, woodland creatures, cozy cabins, winter nights, and one of an old woman. She's seated in rocking chair, looking down, so her hair is blocking her face. In her hands is an embroidery hoop. She's stitching something in red. It's me.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The shops love a trend, and you can't help but jump on board. First was the Watermelon Quenchers served in a full watermelon. Then collectible gingerbread men, who staged a revolt and built their own village. What oddity do you find yourself ordering today? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The first warning was when my knife slid through easily. The second warning was when my arm slid in to the shoulder. I hate it when our mangoes have a bottomless pit. 😠

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Damien Lawardorn @damienlawardorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An orange heart within orange flesh. We've borne children and gold and pets, but never before a flame. What, I wonder, is so special about fire? This fire that burns without heat and never falters? Those who see walk away with lighter step, a greater sense of what could be.

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My turn to process the ripe mangoes. Hard, slow, sticky... I hated the manual labor. But. This time... This time the seed was pearlescent, shimmering in vivid rainbows, a scant bubble around its wealth. I touched it, and its Hope flew into the World. Hope at last! Taking an extra shift tonight.

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Katherine Derbyshire @kderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Precious? No. Kid's a menace. When I saw a tiny boy I thought I'd found a hero, like Peach Boy. More of a chaos goblin. He pulls the cat's tail, he hides my pens, he ties my shoelaces together. But! When I was in a real tight spot once, he magicked up a heap of gold from somewhere. He can stay.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The stickiest dragon, soft-scaled in ripe lovebird colours (green, yellow, coral). Found in one-in-a-million mangos, the bigger ones, sometimes identified by the fruit's heat, even out of direct sun. They don't take to domestication but it sunbasks on the patio while I read poetry. #TinyTalesTuesday

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The eggshell is small, and delicate, and I'm glad I didn't plunge the knife any deeper. I carefully peel the fruit away from the egg, flecks of shell coming away with the fruit flesh as the chick within peeps softly. When I'm done, it pecks at the fruit that sheltered it, taking it's first meal.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats to @niallspain.bsky.social, whose story, "The Last Chance Locksmith," from T&F volume 3 and is reappearing in this anthology! ✨ Further congrats to previous T&F contributors @premeemohamed.com, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and Kelsey Hutton. Plus our own Managing Director @andregeleynse.com! 😍

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Ashley S. Pumpkins 🎃 @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Hey, mom? Uh, so I ate one of the mangos from the tree, and when bit down on the pit I kinda sorta, uh, broke several teeth. Yes, I know the dentist is expensive but! Listen. I cleaned the pit and it's actually a massive uncut diamond! That should help with the dental bill, right? Mom?"

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

omg that's wonderful!! Adding it to my TBR immediately! 😍

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The mango tree has been protected by your family for generations. Its fruit is the best in the world, but it's not for sale. Most contain a normal pit, but every so often, there's something else inside. Something delicate and precious. What did you find last spring? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Storm Bleakly, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I miss the sound of her voice, like the wind had turned to melodious silver. The songs she sang, that crept into my heart and never left. Her kindness to the downtrodden, her wrath to the deserving. Her eyes, like night, and how she looked at me, that one precious night. I miss her.

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Ashley S. Pumpkins 🎃 @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That was a great year. The Fae Queen made all the flowers bloom the whole year round! Great for my beekeeping business. That year's honey jars sell for a hundred gold a piece! 'Course when she left both the flowers and half my swarm died...I sent a letter of complaint but never heard back.

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The year I lost. Or gained. Time moves differently around the Fae. The realm saw Her for a year, but those attending her spent a day in Her presence. I lost a year of watching my child grow. Of the days to spend with family and friends. Of chances to share Life, and Beauty, and Love with them.

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They say that snowflakes drifted in her wake as she traveled. But the flakes could be found in areas she where she had not trod. Personally, I think a few of her attendants were the ones causing that particular affect. Then the slugs spread things around, as is their habit.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once, the trees purpled in fall and their leaves became moths that hibernated in roof thatch for winter. Rain fell sweet as sugar, though of course there are some who drank too deep and slumber still. What do you miss from the year the Fae Queen wandered our realm? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Ashley S. Pumpkins 🎃 @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Outlaw Jim? The guy who defeated a dragon blindfolded AND with one hand tied behind his back? I heard by night he goes by James and every Saturday he stops by the hospital to read to sick orphans. Don't tell anyone I told you that.

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I heard that Outlaw Jim was first called that name by Coyote, after the man managed to steal some food from Coyote's den. Something to do with putting a reverse gravity manipulator on a bird. Can you believe that?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 22/09/2026

You know what I heard, I heard Outlaw Jim got into a bean-eating contest with the Divvle himself, and just as it looked like it was a sure thing and Jim'd be drugged down to Hell, Jim managed one more can -- farted himself clean to the moon -- and come back with a rock to smack the Divvle out cold

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Storm Bleakly, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Outlaw Jim once robbed a hoard with nothing but a song. My aunt's best friend's partner was there, they say that when Outlaw Jim played his first note, the whole hoard animated and just danced out behind him, and the princess followed, laughing.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Outlaw Jim? Outlaw Jim has a mouth so foul he sends sailors crying to momma. Outlaw Jim got swallowed by a dragon and in two days the dragon was begging him to leave. Outlaw Jim does more with eight fingers than a pianist does with ten. Why, what have YOU heard? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Hanne Larsson @hannelarsson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One Wednesday morning, classically, on a banana peel. You'd think that joke would wear thin, much like the name-calling but it remains. So will I, long after those in the Above are dust and myth themselves. That's the beauty of here - we craft our own, remain immortal. #tinytalestuesday

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Rift came *from* me, unfurling from the frayed edge of each un-seamed and unseemly hole in the threadbare and familiar comfort of my clothes. When you tried to smudge away the joy of hard work staining my face, with your finger, you split wide the world the Rift unfurled, a sanctuary even then.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was here first. Before the first hand stretched over the gap and just...let go. And it's not pure stubbornness that kept me here, combing through detritus and debris they heaped down on us. There's still beauty here. From up there, they can't even see the things we're building together.

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was chasing the ghost de mi prima. Ever since she died in the accident she's been whispering in my dreams. The bosses say she was reckless. Abuela warned me from following her, even as she curses them. But I slipped down into the Rift, and I saw what killed mi prima. I know what the High Ups fear.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/09/2026

You know, from that ancient copy of the Terran book I found -- something Nonnia? -- I thought I might just slip in, casually, without meaning to. But it never happened, and I finally paid a fixer to find me a riftslip I could fit into. :/

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh yes of course, of course hmm Awful lot of flowers growing in the compost section aren't there? quite pretty

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was 14. There was a book series. I had 1-8, & 10. 8 ended on a cliff-hanger. I couldn't read 10 without 9, first. Rumors lead me down into the Rift. Instinct lead to an attic there. Warm, dim, dusty. Stuffed to the rafters with old books. Including 9. I'm still there, reading all the other books.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they call you a trash goblin, they don't mean it kindly. But you don't care. You chose this life, down here in the Rifts Between, amid the refuse and refugees of civilizations, and you wouldn't choose any other. How did you first slip into the Rifts? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Sean Tibbitts Is Submitting to Sprigs & Kindling! @pizzoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I grew up in a family of eleven people, and I’ve never learned not to cook for a crowd. So that’s what I do. I bake breads, cookies, and cakes; I stew and I braise; I boil pasta; and I bring it in vast quantities to the center of town, confident that it will all get eaten, no matter what it is.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Basic needs are taken care of, yet in that absence, advanced needs become more prevalent. Existential fears must be given form, and quelled; broken hearts patched back together; hopes and fears bottled in their proper place. The work of the emotional needleworker is never done.

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Heather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

we still litter, tho not as much. I grab my long handled grabbers and my trash bag to ensure the park stays clean. It is my meditation. It is the way I give back.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My grandma taught me to make little clay butter-lamps. But it was my sister—who once went missing for a night & mysteriously returned with 10 extra lbs of muscle & tales of fairyland—who showed me that engraving certain marks on them made them drive away pests. Dunno how they work, but have one!

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Storm Bleakly, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There isn't much demand for curse tablets anymore, and honestly, I'm thankful for it. While I enjoyed the challenge, it was heartbreaking how many I used to sell. These days, I trade mostly in blessings. People bring me their hopes and I weave them with ribbons and string, beads and carved bones.

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blorbos! Get yer Blorbos here! Fresh, hot, sad, mad, sweet, and scrungly. We got 'em all! Soft bois, babygirls, short kings, taters! Blorbos only you could dream about as far as the eye can see! You there! I'm sure you've got your heart set on one of these! Does that there skelly catch your eye?

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every year I craft paper from plants in my garden. I trim the paper to 140cm. Then I fold the paper into a hexagonal grid of 4cm pleats. Finally, I collapse and twist the paper into an origami tessellation I call Celtic Variations. Fixed between 2 planes of glass, it makes a lovely window shade.

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M.J. Jones @mjj-writes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Handknits fingerless gloves that not only keep your fingers warm, they boost your sense of comfort and wellbeing. (The first function operates regardless of weather conditions; the latter does start to lose efficacy after the first hour of wet, cold hiking. They're magical, not miraculous.)

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

She puts up a sign: socks for everyone. The spinner, arms full of colors, spreads today's yarn and takes the rest to the weavers. She works the blessed needles. Blue socks for Timofei. Green socks for Lir. Orange baby booties. A floral motif for Nadia's wife. The needles are satisfied, for today.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/09/2026

Well these here *gestures* *grabs one before it falls off the edge of the table* are hotfoot buns or as I sometimes call them absconements, because they they uh, they run around a bit, see, they've got little currant leggies here and there's a raspberry glaze

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Money is a thing of the past. All basic needs are taken care of, and if you need something you can't make yourself you find it at the market and take it. All will contribute what they can, when they can, however they are able. What do you bring the communal tables? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Archnemesis Goldenhair @archnemesisg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In her memory there's only one thing I can do. I haven't the faintest idea how on earth I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna use every single rhinestone I can get my hands on. And butterflies. That I can do easily with embroidery. But things will sparkle and glitter like gold. The old will be made new.

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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The runes say tomorrow, Odin's Day, will start a storm day. Pounding rain, growling clouds, lashing winds. Gray, perhaps? But... Once the sun stands high, comes the clearing, and the rainbow. A Celebration of surviving. Tomorrow will be an any color day, and I shall wear them all.

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Sean Tibbitts Is Submitting to Sprigs & Kindling! @pizzoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The forecast for tomorrow is rainbows. White straw hat with red banding, orange neckerchief, yellow shirt with a green collar, blue jeans, purple socks, brown shoes, black bag. It may look like anything goes on rainbow days but giving each color space to shine is harder than my usual monochrome look

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Ashley S. Pumpkins 🎃 @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can always tell a day's color by the aura of the sunrise. Yesterday was blue. Today, when I watched the sun rise, the aura was green. I may be a mere hedge witch, and reading day auras is more art than science...but I'd say, for tomorrow, you should definitely stock up on goods that are purple.

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