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Tale  4 min

Tancred's Powders

Régine Raymond

Tancred and his sidekicks used to cast a multitude of spells. Their saddlebags were filled to the brim with greed-powder for the jealous and cannon-powder for the violent. Smoke-and-mirrors-powde ...  [+]
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy  4 min

Dragon Fire

Marièke Poulat

Bibop was a little dragon with orange scales. He had been living on Grey Mountain with his mother since he'd been born. That was already nearly a hundred years ago. A hundred years old, that's when ...  [+]
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Slice of life  1 min

Back to School

Céline Laurent

Thomas had put on his best new school shoes, since it was the first day of the new year.

This morning, when the alarm had gone off, Thomas had woken with a jump.

But now that was already an ...  [+]
Children's
Tale  4 min

The Fairy Well

Patrick Ferrer

"Maroussia, don't go too far from the house!"
The little girl shrugged. The old lady was calling to her from the cottage steps, waving her stick like when she rounded up the goats at nightfall ...  [+]
Children's
Children's
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Tale  3 min

An Exotic Bird

Justine Roux

The little girl was playing at the edge of the garden. She had decided, on this warm summer's afternoon, that she was going to be an archaeologist. Equipped with her beach bucket, a little plastic ...  [+]
Children's
Friendship & Family  3 min

The Meeting

Claire Joanne

I was coming home from school through the park, like I always do, and suddenly, there he was in front of me. 
That was the first time I saw him. He looked so amazing that I stopped a few feet from ...  [+]
Children's
Adventure  4 min

Tom’s Treasure Hunt

Flore Tanor

They must have been walking for a good two hours. The lights of the town are far behind them. The houses disappeared long ago. Now they are walking through the forest and night is falling. Tom is ...  [+]
Children's
Children's
Children's
Adventure  3 min

Real Treasure

Axel C

Every time summer vacation came round, the parents were in the habit of sending their two children to the country, far away from the bustle of the city. So every July, Julien and his little siste ...  [+]
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