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Captain Chipper to the Rescue (short story)
Silvia, the boa constrictor, is nervously slipping up and down the trees around my home. "Chipper, are you ssure that it'ss ssafe to sstay?"

Lilyana Page
Jul 72 min read
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Dear Kasey (fictional letter )
If a feller can speak freely, which I guess I kinda do darn well all o’ the time, one o’ the best things a boy like you could do is get hitched with a Cove girl.
I canna erase ink. Maybe I shouldnta said that.

Lilyana Page
Jun 304 min read
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'Garden Sketch'
"Spring treats us fine," the haughty daffies say, tossing their magnificent heads, convinced that not even the sun is a handsomer yellow than they...

Lilyana Page
May 262 min read
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Dear Davey
I have a passion for stories like hers. Perhaps that is because I am an orphan myself, which you know, although we did not talk about my...

Lilyana Page
Feb 173 min read
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Dear Kasey
She floated in one day out o' the fog, off the grey, grey sea. Pale skin, golden hair, and crimson lips. More angel than baby...

Lilyana Page
Jan 134 min read
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Caged
Everyone is frightened. Even the squabbling chickens above us have ceased to fight. Everyone is whispering about who will be next...

Lilyana Page
Aug 26, 20245 min read
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Is Baking Cookies Usually So Hard?
Mum was out buying groceries when Lulita and I made the fateful decision...

Lilyana Page
Aug 19, 20243 min read
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Little Miss Muffet: The True Story
"I scampered up onto the ceiling,
checked and double-checked my anchoring, and lowered myself by one shining, silvery thread..."

Lilyana Page
Aug 12, 20243 min read
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Three Feet of Trouble: Part Four
Cuddles dropped the goblin ear and launched himself at Rumplestiltskin, bowling the little fiend to the ground...

Lilyana Page
Jul 22, 202410 min read
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Three Feet of Trouble: Part Three
Hair. Lots of it. Dark, thick, shaggy, nasty hair. How come she’d never noticed that before? And that thing on his finger, glinting...

Lilyana Page
Jul 8, 202421 min read
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Three Feet of Trouble: Part Two
Isabelle, certain that the ancient looking goblin would be dead by the time she had her first child, hastily agreed. Anything to keep her...

Lilyana Page
Jun 24, 202419 min read
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Three Feet of Trouble: Part One (A Short Story)
Suddenly, unexpectedly, she laughed. Who else had a father who was so short that he had to reach up on tip-toe to smack her? Who else had...

Lilyana Page
Jun 17, 202410 min read
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One Busy Mom: A Story (Originally Published by Nature Friend Magazine)
Back in September 2023, I received a very exciting package in the mail. An acceptance letter, a cheque, and a complimentary copy of...

Lilyana Page
Apr 8, 20243 min read
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Sardine Standoff: An ABC Story by Lydia Baines
Ack. Here we go again. Barely a week has gone by since I was dropped off in Antartica, and today marks the third day I've been surround...

Lydia Baines
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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