The Informal Feast

The Informal Feast everyone squashes into Old Possum’s house.     (Late November 2024)     Story © Jennifer McClain Singleton / Read+Purr This is another vignette in my ongoing series of Tiny Garden Stories: peaceful 1-minute tales that let you read...

The Understanding Moon

The Understanding Moon   It was too warm out, but Rabbit decided that the warm evening felt like a comforting hug.   Despite feeling unaccountably restless all day, she’d pressed on with work, as one does. But after closing the shop, she’d brought a mug of...

The Windy Day, part 2

The Windy Day, part 2   While Mr. Owl kept a watchful eye on everyone from atop the schoolhouse tree, his students chased each other through leafy drifts, belly-flopped into noisy leaf piles, and scooped up pawfuls of dry leaves to throw at their friends.  ...

The Discovery

The Discovery   One by one, the little chipmunks poked their heads into the hole under the hackberry tree, but it was too dark to see anything.   As the littlest chipmunk, the last in line, peered into the darkness, a shaft of dusky sunlight slanted its way...

The Intense Rainstorm, part 4

The Intense Rainstorm, part 4   The rain poured down, and the wind howled, rattling the windows. Everyone who’d gathered at Old Possum’s house was about to sit down for tea and cookies, when they glanced around the living room and said, “Where’s Rabbit?” ​ Crow...

The Intense Rainstorm, part 3

The Intense Rainstorm, part 3   The rain was so fierce that it was keeping Rabbit’s customers away. So she turned the “open” sign to “closed,” went behind the shop curtain, up the steps into the farther reaches of her roomy burrow, and into the kitchen, where she...