Ursula Vernon

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Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, __e__l get in trouble and he__l figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It__ the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you__e doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don__ be both, because now you__e made a mess you can__ clean up in a hurry.

Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.

Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to me that your relatives would make you insane than some random hooved mammal, however ecologically destructive it might be. What if trolls evolved from goats? Or, no, better yet, what if goats evolved from trolls? Or were domesticated from trolls by human shepherds? And the trolls despise their domesticated cousins as a disgrace to the once-proud troll race, (much as I assume wolves would despise Chihuahuas if they ever gave them much thought) and eat them at every opportunity.

I suppose we should contact the local authorities?_ said W

She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren__ always easy to live with.

A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.

Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.