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Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 3
Join us to explore the idea of connection. The way we can be connected to the people around us and to the worlds we live in.
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(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
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These agates, see how they shine? They're not reflecting the lamplight, they produce their own light from within. You could light a whole theater with just a few Forbidden Coast agates. They're difficult to find, as their light can only be seen after at least eight or ten weeks in the rock tumbler.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
These agates, see how they shine? They're not reflecting the lamplight, they produce their own light from within. You could light a whole theater with just a few Forbidden Coast agates. They're difficult to find, as their light can only be seen after at least eight or ten weeks in the rock tumbler.
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The brochure called the masonry marble but it’s more like well-aged limestone. Look closely. A curved cross-section of a clam. The spiral of a snail’s shell. It still remembers being sea.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The brochure called the masonry marble but it’s more like well-aged limestone. Look closely. A curved cross-section of a clam. The spiral of a snail’s shell. It still remembers being sea.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
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Behold, my favorite stone! Plucked from the shores of Inishmaan, the middle
Island of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and most magical place. It is wonderfully rounded from decades, if not centuries, of North Atlantic waves.
Island of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and most magical place. It is wonderfully rounded from decades, if not centuries, of North Atlantic waves.
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Behold, my favorite stone! Plucked from the shores of Inishmaan, the middle
Island of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and most magical place. It is wonderfully rounded from decades, if not centuries, of North Atlantic waves.
Island of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and most magical place. It is wonderfully rounded from decades, if not centuries, of North Atlantic waves.
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*holds it out to you* They say this one fell from the sky -- I can't vouch for that myself, as I wasn't born yet. But I found a piece in the bog a few years ago and isn't it strange? It has all these little amber glassy windows you can kind of see through, and not always to our world.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
*holds it out to you* They say this one fell from the sky -- I can't vouch for that myself, as I wasn't born yet. But I found a piece in the bog a few years ago and isn't it strange? It has all these little amber glassy windows you can kind of see through, and not always to our world.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
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The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent by Wen Wen Yang
I don’t know why I expected the afterlife to be different from my beforelife.In fact, I hadn’t expected an afterlife at all. As the youngest person in dìfǔ, with no descendants, I certainly didn’t ant...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
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I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
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mashroom Myceli perfec t size for put human in to l\ive! Inside very Soft and Happy human sleep soundly put human in Fungus Asteroid. Put Human In Fungus Asteroid. no problems ever in funggus teroid because good Shape and Connective for human mind weak of big human individual. Amashroom Asteroid yes
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
mashroom Myceli perfec t size for put human in to l\ive! Inside very Soft and Happy human sleep soundly put human in Fungus Asteroid. Put Human In Fungus Asteroid. no problems ever in funggus teroid because good Shape and Connective for human mind weak of big human individual. Amashroom Asteroid yes
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"I don't get it," the captain said, "it's just grass. How many different types of grass could there possibly be?"
I could feel my team flinch. "It depends," I said, "on the site. We've got fine and tall fescues, ryegrass, bentgrass, buffalograss, bluegrass, zoysia as well as clover and yarrow..."
I could feel my team flinch. "It depends," I said, "on the site. We've got fine and tall fescues, ryegrass, bentgrass, buffalograss, bluegrass, zoysia as well as clover and yarrow..."
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"I don't get it," the captain said, "it's just grass. How many different types of grass could there possibly be?"
I could feel my team flinch. "It depends," I said, "on the site. We've got fine and tall fescues, ryegrass, bentgrass, buffalograss, bluegrass, zoysia as well as clover and yarrow..."
I could feel my team flinch. "It depends," I said, "on the site. We've got fine and tall fescues, ryegrass, bentgrass, buffalograss, bluegrass, zoysia as well as clover and yarrow..."
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A variety of mosses go in first to kickstart the O2 cycle, and of course the dwarf goldenberry shrubs that luminesce in 14-hour cycles (and whose vitamin C is uniquely bioavailable for most humanoid travellers). The furred dragonflies with wings like stained glass, though, those are just for her…
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A variety of mosses go in first to kickstart the O2 cycle, and of course the dwarf goldenberry shrubs that luminesce in 14-hour cycles (and whose vitamin C is uniquely bioavailable for most humanoid travellers). The furred dragonflies with wings like stained glass, though, those are just for her…
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Hummingbirds in jewel-tones perfectly suited to low-G. Head size flowers in all the colors of the rainbow. Dragonflies like sequined darning needles above lily-pads gene-geneered to sparkle in the tiny artificial sun above. Everything is color, and movement, and brightness. Life among the Black.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hummingbirds in jewel-tones perfectly suited to low-G. Head size flowers in all the colors of the rainbow. Dragonflies like sequined darning needles above lily-pads gene-geneered to sparkle in the tiny artificial sun above. Everything is color, and movement, and brightness. Life among the Black.
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While we wait for trees to grow, we raise some tall poles and towers. We build bird houses and ledges, perfect for bird nests.
We hope the interstellar crows might take notice--they're always good friends to have, bringing treasures and shiny satellite debris across the void.
Only if they want to.
We hope the interstellar crows might take notice--they're always good friends to have, bringing treasures and shiny satellite debris across the void.
Only if they want to.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
While we wait for trees to grow, we raise some tall poles and towers. We build bird houses and ledges, perfect for bird nests.
We hope the interstellar crows might take notice--they're always good friends to have, bringing treasures and shiny satellite debris across the void.
Only if they want to.
We hope the interstellar crows might take notice--they're always good friends to have, bringing treasures and shiny satellite debris across the void.
Only if they want to.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
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*deep sigh* Well, I bought them from a swindler, and I should have known swindlers keep on swindling... these turn out to be runner beans (they sneak under the fence into my neighbours' gardens, swipe vegetables, and make off with them in the night)
The sheriff will be coming by tomorrow, he says
The sheriff will be coming by tomorrow, he says
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
*deep sigh* Well, I bought them from a swindler, and I should have known swindlers keep on swindling... these turn out to be runner beans (they sneak under the fence into my neighbours' gardens, swipe vegetables, and make off with them in the night)
The sheriff will be coming by tomorrow, he says
The sheriff will be coming by tomorrow, he says
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Pumpkins. Sure, they look normal, but these things were the size of tennis balls yesterday. 3 had already rotted and 1 had sprouted roots and vines. I'll be able to make all the empanadas I wish.
I am concerned about the vibes from that one pumpkin. They're growing in a weird spiral pattern.
I am concerned about the vibes from that one pumpkin. They're growing in a weird spiral pattern.
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pumpkins. Sure, they look normal, but these things were the size of tennis balls yesterday. 3 had already rotted and 1 had sprouted roots and vines. I'll be able to make all the empanadas I wish.
I am concerned about the vibes from that one pumpkin. They're growing in a weird spiral pattern.
I am concerned about the vibes from that one pumpkin. They're growing in a weird spiral pattern.
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They turn out to be toe beans. After growing hundreds of toes, they grow fuzzy feet, and ankles as thick as trees... We moved away after that. I don't know what came next, but no one goes to our old town any more.
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
They turn out to be toe beans. After growing hundreds of toes, they grow fuzzy feet, and ankles as thick as trees... We moved away after that. I don't know what came next, but no one goes to our old town any more.
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They looked like gemstones when I buried them in the soil, hoping against hope. Now the stalks grow, thick as my arm, green with verdigris. The leaves are gold, catching the setting sun, tilting to shower it carefully down the legumes.
The beans begin to sing silver notes; a tiny garden orchestra.
The beans begin to sing silver notes; a tiny garden orchestra.
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
They looked like gemstones when I buried them in the soil, hoping against hope. Now the stalks grow, thick as my arm, green with verdigris. The leaves are gold, catching the setting sun, tilting to shower it carefully down the legumes.
The beans begin to sing silver notes; a tiny garden orchestra.
The beans begin to sing silver notes; a tiny garden orchestra.
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I go on down the road with my bagful of beans, mindful of the weather as I pass from one time to another like a cat sidling through a door. If I can fix just one famine, I will; and if I have to tell the Past Ones that nitrogen fixing is magic, that's just what I'll do.
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I go on down the road with my bagful of beans, mindful of the weather as I pass from one time to another like a cat sidling through a door. If I can fix just one famine, I will; and if I have to tell the Past Ones that nitrogen fixing is magic, that's just what I'll do.
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It takes a few weeks, but the stalks curl and grow around each other, forming a doorway that sounds like laughter and song. You go through and find a dozen people working in a stone-floored kitchen, a medley of smells and voices and activity. A stooped Nonna passes you a wooden spoon, smiling.
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It takes a few weeks, but the stalks curl and grow around each other, forming a doorway that sounds like laughter and song. You go through and find a dozen people working in a stone-floored kitchen, a medley of smells and voices and activity. A stooped Nonna passes you a wooden spoon, smiling.
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The stem is hollow, and huge, and grows deeper into the ground than I'd believed you could go. Deeper than light. Hades deep. I prepare for the descent: backpack, and a little food, some water, a rope, and the only lantern.
Just before I start off, I mutter, "Wish I'd planted them right side up."
Just before I start off, I mutter, "Wish I'd planted them right side up."
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The stem is hollow, and huge, and grows deeper into the ground than I'd believed you could go. Deeper than light. Hades deep. I prepare for the descent: backpack, and a little food, some water, a rope, and the only lantern.
Just before I start off, I mutter, "Wish I'd planted them right side up."
Just before I start off, I mutter, "Wish I'd planted them right side up."
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
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"When they're young, they're great for hauling cargo - just look at all those legs! But, once they emerge from their chrysalis, you'll have the most beautiful, luxurious riding butterfly in your neighborhood! Unlike a common, midsize moth, this here is a Swallowtail, it'll seat up to 12!"
The market for mega-arthropods is strong these days. Giant bees for cartographer mounts, giant millipedes to excavate new sewer tunnels, giant jumping spiders for rodeos. What do you raise at your farm?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"When they're young, they're great for hauling cargo - just look at all those legs! But, once they emerge from their chrysalis, you'll have the most beautiful, luxurious riding butterfly in your neighborhood! Unlike a common, midsize moth, this here is a Swallowtail, it'll seat up to 12!"
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I don’t brag about many things, but I’m proud of my jewel beetles 🪲 the wealthy flock to purchase insects with carapaces of iridescent greens, blues, and reds to pull their carriages.
I also sell raise stag beetles to sell to construction companies, but that happens from my secondary farm.
I also sell raise stag beetles to sell to construction companies, but that happens from my secondary farm.
The market for mega-arthropods is strong these days. Giant bees for cartographer mounts, giant millipedes to excavate new sewer tunnels, giant jumping spiders for rodeos. What do you raise at your farm?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I don’t brag about many things, but I’m proud of my jewel beetles 🪲 the wealthy flock to purchase insects with carapaces of iridescent greens, blues, and reds to pull their carriages.
I also sell raise stag beetles to sell to construction companies, but that happens from my secondary farm.
I also sell raise stag beetles to sell to construction companies, but that happens from my secondary farm.