Dima fumed. Other villagers prepared pendants and banners for the Ancestor Veneration march. No way she’d do that. Bad enough she despised all memory of her late grandmother. Worse, the embroidered silk banner gave her a rash. Instead she found a small pole, attached the dreaded banner and summoned her friends the cockroaches. So many … More Cozy Flash: “Well, Well”
Glorin the dwarf snuck back underground, hoping his absence hadn’t been noticed. He had managed to steal away again to the surface to tend his little garden, but now it was time to return to his family tasks. After all, metal didn’t work itself. But one day soon, Glorin hoped to leave the smithy behind. … More Cozy Flash: “Glorin the Dwarf”
The dragon was dead. The glory and treasure had been won in that trove, thought indomitable. Lucaine and her faithful friends had succeeded in liberating the vale of Vankle. She now traveled back down the road that had led her there, this time alone and on a different quest, a red cloth token her most … More Cozy Flash: “Path to the People”
July 27th was a momentous day for cozy fantasy, and Wyngraf in particular. Yesterday, someone in the United Kingdom bought a paperback edition of Wyngraf #1, marking our 136th copy sold and officially putting us over the line of our initial budget of $682.14. As we discussed in our numbers post, we wound up paying … More We Did It! Wyngraf #1 Breaks Even
“I swear to you, this baby is a monster,” Sansavi said as she pushed the pram back and forth across the black bridge of Zairahm. Normally the motion calmed the baby, but this time it didn’t work. The baby just kept on crying, wailing like a doomed soul in the ninth circle of Hell. Sansavi’s … More Cozy Flash: “Demon Child”
The swordsman said, “Fetch me the rooster.” And his daughter obeyed. Elizabeth left the castle quickly and crossed the street in her search. She knew which rooster he meant—the great, black rooster, almost as large as she was, with one eye green and the other gray, that lived in the house on Tumble Hill on … More Cozy Flash: “Elizabeth and the Egg-Laying Rooster”
Wish You Were Here: A Review of The House in The Cerulean Sea Michael Aaron Harrington There is a scene early on in TJ Klune’s sweet, quirky, and wonderful book The House in the Cerulean Sea where the main character—Linus Baker, a fortysomething, overweight mouse of a man—looks at one of the few possessions he … More Cozy Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea
At long last, Wyngraf is thrilled to reopen to cozy flash fiction submissions! We’ve responded to everyone who submitted previously and put together our schedule for the next few weeks. Even better, we’ve been hard at work at a top-secret flash fiction project we plan to launch in the fall. Let’s just say we’re looking … More Reopening to Cozy Flash!
It would be absurd in the extreme to consider anything by J.R.R. Tolkien “forgotten.” This is a man whose every note, fragment, and grocery list has been published and developed into a movie trilogy or TV series. Nevertheless, I think the novelette “Smith of Wootton Major” deserves more recognition from us lovers of cozy fantasy. … More Cozy Review: “Smith of Wootton Major”
It was a small thing, air-light, tissue-thin, barely an impression left in the great, good green into which it was born. The spark that brought it to life was also a mere whisper, a molecule or two of breeze floating among a soft spring mist just before dawn. A small thing, but not helpless, even … More Cozy Flash: “Dreaming of Violets”
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