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Spin Sisters

There is a place where the leaves fall far from the tree. Our little town is quiet, pets move away, blown off to the glitter of Brightvale, that ever-greener somewhere else. And when they are gone, the tree cries, shedding its leaves. I cry too, beneath its bare branches...

by animageous
The Scratchcard

"Terlia!" cried the Cybunny shopkeeper delightedly. "Just who I need!"

by tamia_silverwing
Repaired Dreams

"Oh, Lena," she said patting her daughter on the shoulder with her heavy paws, "You know I can't afford to buy you another plushie. They're so expensive these days."

by _solarium
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 "...Qually, what are you talking about?" Rosie, his sister, asked him, putting down the book of paint samples she was looking at. "It's summer! You don't have any homework."

by pandabearb
Twenty Days I've Lived Without You

Dear Rayneboery, Oh my gosh! I can't believe my little-wittle Rayneboery-Wayneboery is finally growing up! It's just like it was yesterday I hatched your egg at the adoption center...

by squieshie
The Perfect Petpet

I entered the room to see Foxy, a cute little Christmas Doglefox, sitting and whimpering as Pup, a Christmas Puppyblew, circled around him, making fake lunges and snapping at thin air a couple inches from Foxy's face. Both Ember and Angel looked at me, then both said simultaneously, "Help!"

by wolf_queen3004
Inner Demons

"Katrine, listen to me," Karrie hissed, desperate to wake her sleeping twin, who had fur as grey as the sky she described. "You don't have to be sorry. It wasn't your fault."

by yatomiyuka
Revisions

The Cybunny heaved a sigh and picked up the pencil. She got through three words -- Once there was -- before her inspiration ran out and she slammed the fragile implement back onto the desktop...

by extreme_fj0rd
Big Brother Blues Two

It had been about two years since I had lost my younger brother, Twilight. He was a young, slightly annoying baby Gelert. I got annoyed with him, and my owner noticed, and felt the same way. But my owner got so angry with him that eventually, she left him at the pound...

by kia_shadow
Violin for Timothy

Only one young Neopet slouched slowly towards the gates, carrying a brown leather briefcase and wearing a brown cap on top of his black hair. He hesitated at the border of the barred gates, pondering whether he should cross into the other world, the one that separated him from school...

by shadyy15
And Gobble Up Them Pineapples!

"Ye mangy sand-gobbin' scoundrels'll rue the day ye did this ta us!" the furious Pirate Kougra bellowed as he shook his paw after the receding ship...

by hermionechochang
The Great Turmaculus

That morning, the earth faerie, Illusen, was strolling on the Meridell hills, breathing in the crisp morning air...

by ilovehyrule
Boochi Blues

"You guys! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"

by saphira361
 
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