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When the Trees Listen: A Bloom & Bough Snippet
The little girl giggled and patted Needle’s trunk. “I think the tree heard me.”
A Butterfly’s Breath: A Fairy Fable Snippet
Up and up and up the butterfly went, until it reached the very tippy tops of the trees.
Elspeth and the Whispering Tree
“There was once a tree,” he murmured. “High up in Glen Brae, where no one goes now. My mother used to say it remembered things folk had lost. Names, songs, and promises. She called it the Ash That Whispers.”
Corinne and the Fox
But on the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Corinne noticed something odd. The sun hung bright overhead as she collected herbs from her garden, yet no shadow pooled at her feet. She spun around, searching the ground in confusion—but where her shadow should have stretched across the dewy grass, there was nothing but light.
Forget-Me-Not Behind the Wall
Margaret read on, following Robert’s experiences as a young American scholar in East Germany during the Cold War. His voice on the page was different—younger, more passionate, less guarded than the professor of literature she’d married.
The Changeling’s Price
But Eilis saw the flash of fear in her mother’s eyes when the baby turned its golden gaze toward her. That evening, when this unusual creature refused to nurse and remained silent even as her mother sobbed over it, Eilis watched her father place protective herbs above the doorframes.