The castle gave Daz and Pooky more answers than comfort — which is to say, it behaved exactly like an institution with a guilty conscience.

Now the quest turns away from royal records and toward the deep forest, where Snooker and Weewee’s people have been trying to survive exile, overcrowding, suspicious paperwork, unicorn opinions, griffin grudges, pixie crime, bog sprite documentation, and one deeply officious owlbear registrar.

But somewhere among the quarrels, soup pots, disputed spoons, and magical refugees, there may be one final thread to follow.

The Djinn is known for giving people what they need instead of what they wish for.

And Daz and Pooky need Hope

In This Episode (Spoiler-Free):

Daz and Pooky leave the castle with more memory, more grief, and no clear path forward.

Snooker and Weewee bring the party home to the crowded forest refuge of the magical folk.

Biscuit follows a trail tangled with old magic, strange scents, and far too many opinions.

The forest is full of displaced creatures, including pixies, griffins, unicorns, brownies, bog sprites, trolls, and an owlbear with multiple clipboards.

The party learns more about the mysterious Djinn who grants needs instead of wishes.

The magical folk remember fragments: bells, songs, royal children, fear, and a vanishing.

Daz and Pooky must stop asking where Hope is — and start understanding what Hope means.

⚠️ Content Advisory:

Cozy fantasy peril, grief, magical exile, references to political persecution, memory theft, family separation, corrupt rulers, displaced communities, emotional reunion themes, guilt and self-forgiveness, mentions of past violence and death, comic creature conflict, mild fantasy menace, and one dachshund who takes legal and moral positions very seriously.

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Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter and https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels

https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory FinkSound Engineering by Tom FinkOriginal Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on SubstackTheme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeodAdditional Music: Hopeless - Jimena ContrerasAdditional Music: I’ll Remember You - Jeremy BlakeAdditional Music: Lost & Found - Dan LebowitzAdditional Music: Lullaby - JVNAAdditional Music: Angel’s Dream - Aakash Gandhi

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaosFolklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instinctsCozy fantasy with teethDogs who know exactly where the plot is hidingFairy-tale narrators with a winkTiny people making enormous problems (and solving them)Stories within storiesMagical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacyTerry Pratchett-adjacent mischiefDiana Wynne Jones-style enchantmentThe Borrowers, but more feralThe Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story)

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.

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✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 (Chapter 1): Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

🔥 Already into it / want the newest arc? Start Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1 (Chapter 8): Be Careful, Darlings, For the Woods Eat Questions After Dark

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café (cozy chaos + BTS):

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Until Next Time… Keep your pockets ready, your snacks accounted for, and your dachshund close.

Season 3 is coming in 2027 so Stay Tuned…Subscribed…stuff?

Well, well, well.

When last we left Daz, Pooky, Biscuit, Snooker, and Weewee, the truth had just crawled out of Yontiff’s cave, shook soot out of its hair, and ruined everybody’s emotional stability.

Now Daz and Pooky remember just enough to know that the story they were told was not the story that happened. Which is inconvenient, because the story that happened involves a castle, a stolen past, a missing sister, a goblin king with the moral fiber of wet bread, and a whole kingdom that keeps forgetting things it very much ought to remember.

The road remembers them.

The castle remembers them.

The portraits are acting suspicious.

The villagers know something, then do not know it, then look deeply embarrassed about the whole situation.

And Biscuit, who has never once needed a royal commission to investigate obvious villainy, is following her nose straight toward trouble.

In other words: memory has entered the chat, and she brought receipts

In This Episode (Spoiler-Free):

In Chapter 13, you’ll find:

* A castle that remembers what the people cannot.

* A kingdom where the official story has been polished so smooth it ought to make everyone nervous.

* Daz and Pooky facing the home that raised them… and forgot them.

* Snooker and Weewee doing their best moral courage from pocket height.

* Biscuit conducting a formal dachshund investigation with growls, huffs, sneezes, and excellent judgment.

* Royal portraits behaving in a manner best described as “emotionally suspicious.”

* Memory magic that works just long enough to break your heart.

* A goblin king whose talent for theft goes far beyond crowns and coins.

* Fairy-tale mystery, family secrets, tiny chaotic brownies, and snack-based resistance.

* One crucial reminder: children facing tyranny need jam.

⚠️ Content Advisory:This episode includes cozy fantasy peril, memory loss and magical manipulation, stolen family history, grief, references to parental death, references to poisoning from earlier chapters, tyrannical rule, poverty and food insecurity, political corruption, emotional distress, abandonment fears, and family trauma.

Also included: suspicious portraits, tax-related bun injustice, a dachshund growling at bad magic, tiny brownies crying with varying levels of dignity, and fairy-tale danger softened by humor, tenderness, and snacks.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts:Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter and https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels

https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink

Sound Engineering by Tom Fink

Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Additional Music: Hopeless - Jimena Contreras

Additional Music: I'll Remember You - Jeremy Blake

Additional Music: Lullaby - JVNA

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

* Willow-inspired brownie chaos

* Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts

* Cozy fantasy with teeth

* Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding

* Fairy-tale narrators with a wink

* Tiny people making enormous problems (and solving them)

* Stories within stories

* Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy

* Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief

* Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment

* The Borrowers, but more feral

* The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story)

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

Gloryous Magazine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 (Chapter 1): Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

🔥 Already into it / want the newest arc? Start Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1 (Chapter 8): Be Careful, Darlings, For the Woods Eat Questions After Dark https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-season-2-episode

You are currently in Season 2, Episode 6 / Chapter 13: As the Kingdom Falls Down.

Which means you have arrived at the castle portion of the family scandal.

Please keep your hands inside the emotional ride at all times.

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Until Next Time…

What is the lesson, my dears?

Do not trust a king merely because he wears a crown.

Do not trust a merchant merely because he brings pretty things.

And absolutely do not trust an official story with no crumbs, no stains, no aunties arguing over the details, and no dog willing to vouch for it.

A clean tale may look respectable, but sometimes it is hiding a dirty floor.

So keep your memories close, your pockets opinionated, and your dachshund close to your heart

Because when the whole kingdom forgets where the truth is buried… Biscuit will still find it.

This week, the road away from the Night Market leads Daz, Pooky, Biscuit, Snooker, and Weewee to a place old magic has been saving for them: Yontiff’s cave.

The brownies know the rules before anyone else does. Some places are not merely places. Some places are mother-places, dragon-places, family-places. And no matter how brave a brownie might be, hearth law is older than courage.

Inside the cave, memory wakes.

A dragon’s lair becomes a kitchen. A monster becomes a mother. A recipe becomes evidence. And the truth Daz and Pooky have been circling finally lands with all the tenderness and horror it was owed.

No poisoned cookies will be served after the chapter. There is, however, a real oatmeal lace cookie recipe. No dragonsbane. No goblin curses. No treasonous royal interference. Just butter, oats, brown sugar, and family instructions with opinions.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free:

A babydoll points the way out of the Night MarketBiscuit follows the plot with professional dachshund suspicionSnooker and Weewee confront old hearth lawYontiff’s cave remembers what the kingdom forgotOatmeal lace cookies become emotionally complicatedA burnt recipe card reveals a mother’s loveThe party discovers a clue leading toward the courtAnd somewhere far away, something in the forgotten kingdom begins to panic

⚠️ Content Advisory:

Cozy fantasy peril, grief, memory loss, emotional manipulation, family trauma, magical coercion, child characters manipulated into harm, dragon death, poisoning by fantasy substance, references to stolen children, goblin tyranny, and intense revelations about a parent’s death. Also includes humor, food, a loyal dachshund, and a real cookie recipe after the chapter.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts:

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✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

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Chapters, audio updates, behind-the-scenes notes, and assorted fairy-tale nonsense arrive by inbox.Subscription is optional, but encouraged. Biscuit is watching. Lovingly.

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Credits:

Written & Read: Glory Fink

Sound Engineering: Tom Fink

Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music:FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Background Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Hopeless — Jimena Contreras

I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake

Angel’s Dream — Aakash Gandhi

Poison Apple — Quincas Moreira

Weirder Stuff — Geographer

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Cozy fantasy with bite

Dragon mothers and family secrets

Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts

Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding

Fairy-tale narrators with a wink

Tiny people making enormous problems and occasionally solving them

Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy

Memory magic, old recipes, and emotionally devastating cookies

Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief

Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment

The Borrowers, but more feral

The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy-tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.

👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 / Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

🔥 Already into it / want the newest arc?

Season 2 begins with Chapter 8: Be Careful, Darlings, For the Woods Eat Questions After Darkhttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-season-2-episode 

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café

For cozy chaos, behind-the-scenes updates, creative community, and assorted rabbit-adjacent nonsense:

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Find me, Glory Fink, as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media:

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Until next time…Keep your cookies free of poison, your memories truthful, your tiny friends properly welcomed, and your dachshund close enough to identify the plot before it bites.

The lantern has appeared. Biscuit has stepped forward. And because fairy tales have absolutely no respect for bedtime, Daz, Pooky, Snooker, Weewee, and one very professional dachshund are headed into the dark toward the Night Market.

After Bubby Vama’s warning, the party knows better than to ask where Hope is. That would be too easy, too rude, and frankly too optimistic for a market where even lies have to pay rent. Instead, they must ask where the story begins again.

Which sounds poetic.

Unfortunately, poetry has consequences.

At the Night Market, there are fortunes, fried dough, dangerous bargains, suspiciously specific baby shoes, closure in bottles, damp sleeves, and enough magical nonsense to make even Snooker nervous. But past the lantern bridge waits Madam Talmai, Midwife to Lost Stories — and she has something for them.

A babydoll.

A beginning.

A receipt.

And once the doll points the way, the Night Market goes quiet for one name no one wants to say too loudly:

Yontiff.

In This Episode (Spoiler-Free):

In Chapter 11, you’ll find:

A lantern road with entirely too much confidence.

Biscuit taking over navigation when magic stops being useful.

The Night Market in all its fried-dough, prophecy-selling, bargain-haunted glory.

Snooker and Weewee confronting temptations such as tiny armor, battle bowls, and the consequences of past walnut behavior.

Pooky receiving an unexpected bargain involving tiger’s eye stones and a blessing from “the Dark Lord.”

Daz encountering baby blankets, worry dolls, lost lullabies, and the ache of beginnings she does not yet understand.

A soothsayer who greets Biscuit first, because she knows professional competence when she sees it.

A question that is not “Where is Hope?” but “Where does the story begin again?”

A babydoll that may know more than anyone wants it to.

The road to Yontiff’s cave opening at last.

⚠️ Content Advisory:

Cozy fantasy peril, ominous fairy-tale market atmosphere, magical bargains, references to stolen children, grief, memory loss, family separation, implied past violence, unsettling baby/beginning imagery, emotional dread, suspicious food, damp sleeves, and one dachshund being asked to do more professional labor than anyone else in the party.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts:

Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyondhttps://linktr.ee/glorywritestheblues

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunterhttps://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mysteryhttps://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angelshttps://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story):

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy-tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Compliance is optional, but encouraged.

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❤️ Tap the heart button — engagement is magic.💬 Leave a comment — would you buy fried dough, a secondhand prophecy, tiny armor, or absolutely nothing because Bubby Vama warned you better?💛 Become a Financial Booster.

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Your support keeps indie storytelling caffeinated, chaotic, and just enchanted enough.

Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink

Sound Engineering by Tom Fink

Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Additional Music: Hopeless - Jimena Contreras

Additional Music: I'll Remember You - Jeremy Blake

Additional Music: No.2 Remembering Her - Esther Abrami

Additional Music: Funky House Dance - Wasp Kill - Rachel K Collier

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaosFolklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instinctsCozy fantasy with teethDogs who know exactly where the plot is hidingFairy-tale narrators with a winkTiny people making enormous problems and occasionally solving themStories within storiesMagical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacyTerry Pratchett-adjacent mischiefDiana Wynne Jones-style enchantmentThe Borrowers, but more feralThe Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story)

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.

👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 / Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

🔥 Already into it / want the newest arc? Start Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1 / Chapter 8: Be Careful, Darlings, For the Woods Eat Questions After Darkhttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-season-2-episode

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Cafécozy chaos + BTS

👉 https://coffeebunny.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web

Find me, Glory Fink, as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media:

🌤️ BlueSky 📸 Instagram 📹 YouTube 🎮 Twitch

📘 Facebook 🎵 TikTok @  Threads

Until Next Time…

Keep your pockets checked, your bargains specific, your pastries emotionally supportive, and your dachshund close

The morning after old grief comes knocking, Bubby Vama fights back with breakfast.

Eggs. Sausages. Toast. Tea. Enough food to convince sorrow it has the wrong address.

But Hope is still missing.

Biscuit can catch pieces of the trail, but not the road. Daz and Pooky are raw from what they remember and haunted by what they still don’t. Snooker and Weewee are trying to be helpful, which is always brave and occasionally alarming.

Then Bubby Vama announces the next step in the quest:

Spring cleaning.

But in Bubby Vama’s house, cleaning is never just cleaning.

Closets remember. Cabinets judge. Drawers keep secrets. Curtains gossip. And lost things may only be waiting for the right person to open the wrong door.

As the cottage begins giving back what time, grief, and magic tried to bury, one question hangs over every room:

Is the house helping them find Hope…

or preparing them for what finding her will cost?

In This Episode (Spoiler-Free):

✨ Breakfast as grief management, Bubby Vama style

✨ Spring cleaning in a house with secrets, opinions, and poor boundaries

✨ Forgotten objects with suspiciously good memories

✨ Biscuit trying to solve the case while everyone else catches feelings

✨ Cozy fantasy chaos, old family mysteries, tiny people, and magical household nonsense 

⚠️ Content Advisory:This chapter contains cozy fantasy peril, grief after family separation, references to lost memories, emotional overwhelm, magical objects tied to painful memories, ominous fairy-tale rules, strange market-related references to babies, and mild food-based magical unease.

The danger is softened by humor, hospitality, domestic magic, tiny people with enormous opinions, and one highly competent dachshund.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts:Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond https://linktr.ee/glorywritestheblues 

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to: Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story):Chapters, audio updates, and assorted cosmic memos arrive via inbox. Compliance is optional, but encouraged.👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/ 

💛 Help This Story Keep Finding Its People:❤️ Tap the heart button — engagement is magic 💬 Leave a comment — and tell me which object from Bubby Vama’s house you would trust least: the smug cookie tin, the rude cabinet, the gossiping curtain, the judgmental umbrella room, or the hatbox that apparently cannot be trusted with anyone’s name.

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Your support keeps indie storytelling caffeinated, chaotic, and just celestial enough.

Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink

Sound Engineering by Tom Fink

Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Additional Music: Lost & Found - Dan Lebowitz

Additional Music: I'll Remember You - Jeremy Blake

Additional Music: No.2 Remembering Her - Esther Abrami

Additional Music: Weirder Stuff - Geographer

Additional Music: Lullaby - JVNA

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos

Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts

Cozy fantasy with teeth

Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding

Fairy-tale narrators with a wink

Tiny people making enormous problems (and solving them)

Stories within stories

Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy

Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief

Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment

The Borrowers, but more feral

The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first 

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story)

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 (Chapter 1): Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit 

🔥 Already into it / want the newest arc? Start Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1 / Chapter 8: “Be Careful, Darlings, For the Woods Eat Questions After Dark”https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-season-2-episode 

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café (cozy chaos + BTS):👉https://coffeebunny.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web

Find me, Glory Fink as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media: 🌤️ BlueSky 📸 Instagram 📹 YouTube 🎮 Twitch

📘 Facebook 🎵 TikTok @  Threads

Until Next Time…  If a lantern starts bobbing politely at the edge of the lane, remember: fairy tales (and adventures) are rarely polite enough to wait until morning.

Biscuit is barking at the dark like the fate of the household depends on it.

Daz has a broom. Pooky has a chair. Snooker has a dinner fork. Weewee has a butter knife that may or may not have chosen them for greatness.

And Bubby Vama?

Bubby Vama opens the door and tells the thing outside: not tonight.

After the woods are dismissed — not defeated, mind you, dismissed — the kettle starts muttering again, the bread appears, the tea pours itself, and Bubby Vama decides that if no one is sleeping, it is time for truth tellin’.

Unfortunately, some truths do not arrive politely.

In this chapter, Daz and Pooky begin to learn why Bubby Vama’s house feels so familiar, why grief keeps rising out of ordinary things like chipped blue cups and pie dough, and why Hope’s absence is tangled up with memory, betrayal, a kingdom that forgot too quickly, and a dragon who was never what the story said she was.

There will be fresh bread. There will be magical household judgment. There will be tiny beings with enormous emotional opinions. There will be one dachshund refusing to let despair have the whole room.

And somewhere between tea, butter, old grief, and the thing breathing outside the door, Daz and Pooky will discover that fairy tales do not always lie.

Sometimes they were lied to first.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free:

In Chapter 9, you’ll find:

● Biscuit defending Bubby Vama’s back door like a tiny red general. ● Daz armed with a broom and Pooky armed with a chair, because magical danger does not always wait for proper weapons. ● Snooker and Weewee attempting heroic table defense with cutlery. ● A butter knife with suspiciously strong opinions. ● Bubby Vama calmly dismissing something vast, hungry, and unseen from her doorstep. ● Tea, bread, butter, sausage, and the kind of hospitality that knows when people are about to fall apart. ● A magical house with boundaries, emotional intelligence, and at least one judgmental wooden spoon. ● Old memories surfacing through cups, windows, pie dough, cold air, and grief. ● The truth behind a kingdom’s heroic story beginning to crack open. ● Hope being remembered not as an idea, but as someone stubborn, brilliant, furious, and deeply loved. ● Biscuit proving once again that dogs remember with their hearts first. ● Cozy fantasy with bite, butter, betrayal, and one very serious question: what do you do when the story that made you a hero was built on a lie?

⚠️ Content Advisory:

Cozy fantasy peril, ominous woods, something unseen outside the house, emotional distress, grief, memory loss, magical manipulation, betrayal by a ruler, family trauma, discussion of a dragon’s death, discussion of a parent’s death, references to violence and false heroism, intense revelations about forgotten loved ones, and characters processing guilt, despair, and survival. Also contains magical household judgment, tiny cutlery-based bravery, fresh bread, butter, sausage, and one dachshund doing essential anti-despair work.

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: I'll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: Lullaby - JVNA

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Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems, and occasionally solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

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Season 1, Episode 1 / Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

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Until Next Time…

Keep your pockets ready, your snacks accounted for, and your dachshund close.

Trust the dog. Distrust the king. And never ignore a house that keeps receipts.

Season 2 begins with Biscuit on the trail, Daz and Pooky trying very hard to look normal in a world that knows better, and Snooker and Weewee discovering that wilderness travel is a lot more stressful when you are nine inches tall.

The magical world has opened its doors — sort of. Unfortunately, the path is alive, the flowers are nosy, the mushrooms are suspiciously persuasive, and the woods have very strong feelings about anyone searching for Hope after dark.

Also, there is soup.

Obviously, this means things are serious.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free

Biscuit catches the faintest trace of Hope and follows it into a forest that does not appreciate being investigated.

Daz and Pooky step deeper into a world that recognizes what they are, even while they’re still pretending to be ordinary travelers.

Snooker and Weewee survive pockets, mushrooms, rude leaves, and the general indignity of being tiny in a large and opinionated forest.

A delicious smell leads the party toward a mysterious house, a magical kitchen, and a woman named Bubby Vama, who knows far more than she immediately explains.

Everyone receives an important reminder: in fairy-tale woods, manners matter, names are dangerous, and questions are best asked before sunset.

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Contains fairy-tale peril, ominous enchanted woods, ancient household magic, mild emotional tension around a missing loved one, food-as-folklore hospitality, unsettling magical misdirection, tiny creatures fearing for their survival, a dachshund facing thorny supernatural obstacles, and strong warnings about names, doors, dreams, and asking questions after dark.

No graphic violence. Strong cozy-danger energy.

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: Hopeless — Jimena Contreras Additional Music: I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: Lost & Found - Dan Lebowitz

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Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first Magical kitchens where hospitality and danger share a table Grandmother figures who are comforting, terrifying, and almost certainly correct

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Season 1, Episode 1/ Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt

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Those D*mn Brownies: Biscuit's Moonlit Hunt

A clever dog, two troublesome brownies, and a moonlit night where stories and mischief collide. What happens when adventure, magic, and unexpected tales come sniffing around?Unlock a world of enchant…

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Until Next Time…

Stay close to the path, don’t answer strange flowers, and if a dachshund tells you the woods are lying — believe her.

In the Season 1 finale, Snooker tells one last tale — a story of a djinn, a kind traveler, and the dangerous magic of being offered hospitality when you’ve spent centuries expecting commands.

But this is not just a story.

Daz and Pooky are still awake. The brownies have run out of gentle hints. Biscuit knows where the plot is buried. And beneath the holly and ivy, something old, golden, and impossible is waiting to be remembered.

This week: enchantments crack, ancient names stir, tiny people hedge their bets, and one very determined dachshund leads everyone toward the thing they’ve been missing all along.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free

A djinn learns the suspicious power of mint tea and candied orange slices

Snooker’s storytelling finally starts doing exactly what it was meant to do

Daz and Pooky begin to understand that their cozy little life may not be what it seemed

Biscuit takes command with the confidence of a dog who knows she has located the important dirt

Holly, ivy, an old box, and a golden dragon pendant become everybody’s business

The brownies bravely maintain a safe distance from whatever enormous immortal nonsense is about to happen

The quest finally becomes clear enough to pack a bag

Season 1 ends with a door opening toward stranger woods, deeper magic, and Hope

⚠️ Content Advisory

Contains fairy-tale peril, magical identity loss, memory restoration, ancient enchantment, mild emotional tension around a missing loved one, ominous folklore imagery, tiny creatures fearing for their survival, and one dachshund digging up deeply suspicious plot objects.

No graphic violence. Strong cozy-danger energy.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

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✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: Hopeless — Jimena Contreras Additional Music: I'll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: No.2 Remembering Her — Esther Abrami Additional Music: Weirder Stuff — Geographer

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Djinn tales, enchanted objects, and snack-based diplomacy Ancient siblings with inconvenient memory problems Magical households hiding impossible secrets Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

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Until Next Time…

Keep your snacks close, your dachshund sniffing, and your tiny household spirits within shouting distance.

Because once the woods start eating questions after dark, darlings, you’ll want someone around who knows where the exits are — or at least where the emergency candy is hidden.

A beautiful Sunday morning begins with Biscuit’s perimeter patrol, Weewee’s backyard communion beneath the old ash tree, and Pooky’s extremely sensible brunch plans. But once the bacon is crisp, the sausage is served, and the phones are turned off, Snooker decides it is time to test a terrible possibility: what if Daz and Pooky aren’t merely sleepy?

What if something is keeping them from knowing who they really are?

And what if the truth is powerful enough to put them straight to sleep?

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free

A dachshund conducts her morning patrol with great seriousness and excellent skills.

Weewee pays respect to the spirit of the old ash tree.

Pooky prepares a brunch worthy of both royalty and tiny chaos brownies.

Snooker finally explains why the brownies never quite finish certain stories.

Daz proposes a practical experiment, because sometimes the best way to test an enchantment is to turn off your phone and let the tiny storyteller talk.

A goblin king named Snuffleglump enters the chat.

Biscuit is entrusted with an extremely important sausage-based rescue mission.

And the household discovers that some fairy tales are safer than the truth.

⚠️ Content Advisory

Cozy fantasy peril, magical enchantment, memory loss/identity confusion, brief discussion of a controlling goblin king, comic fear of death, food mentions, tiny creatures in mild danger, and one very helpful dachshund.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

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✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: Hopeless — Jimena Contreras Additional Music: I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: Angel’s Dream — Aakash Gandhi

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Magical breakfasts with ominous implications Memory enchantments and identity mysteries Ancient beings pretending this is all perfectly normal Sausage-based emergency protocols Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters had to manage an enchanted royal household

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café — cozy chaos + BTS

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Until Next Time…

Keep your dogs heroic, your brunch well-supplied, and your fairy-tale truths wrapped carefully in sausage.

Takeout and Tales: Not All Dragons Burn Bridges

After a very long day of ordinary-world nonsense, Daz and Pooky return home with takeout, exhaustion, and absolutely no intention of cooking. But what begins as a cozy pajama dinner turns into something stranger when Snooker and Weewee tell a tale of dragons, lost royals, bogs, betrayal, and memories that refuse to stay awake.

In this episode, the brownies once again try to help Daz and Pooky remember who they are, Biscuit proves she is the most responsible member of this household, and dinner diplomacy involves naan, dessert, and maybe a little ancient enchantment… who knows?

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free

A cozy takeout feast after a very sticky, very exhausting day Tiny house wrappers with big emotional significance Snooker stepping into full storyteller mode A dragon tale that may not be only a tale A mysterious enchantment interfering with memory Daz and Pooky being ancient, tired, adorable disasters Biscuit performing snack patrol, escort duty, and nighttime security The first hints that bedtime stories may be doing more than entertaining

⚠️ Content Advisory

Cozy fantasy peril, fairy-tale mystery, references to dragon abduction, monster-slaying, emotional abandonment, magical memory interference, enchanted sleep implications, mild sibling tension, domestic food descriptions, tiny creatures being secretive on purpose, and one very responsible dachshund conducting snack patrol and household security. 

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

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✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: Hopeless - Jimena Contreras

Additional Music: I'll Remember You - Jeremy Blake

✨ Read / Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a winkFair folk making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first Fantasy dinners where the leftovers may be less mysterious than the backstory

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

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Until Next Time…

Lock the doors, save the leftovers, listen to the fair folk when they start telling stories, and never underestimate a dachshund on a mission

A suspicious goblin king. A bedtime story that may not be a bedtime story at all. A Night Market advertisement with the deeply alarming sales pitch “BABIES! Buy 2Get 1 FREE!”

This week, Pooky finally starts asking the right questions, Snooker begins spinning a tale older and stranger than anyone expected, and Weewee quietly suggests the most dangerous possibility of all: maybe Daz and Pooky aren’t hearing random stories.

Maybe they’re being told their own.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free:

A tiny interrogation with very big implications

Snooker reveals the beginning of a Night Market story involving babies, bargains, old friends, and suspiciously enchanted advertising

Pooky proves that “excellent hearing” is not always convenient for tiny secret-keepers

Daz and Biscuit return from investigating suspicious bushes, because the plot knows how to multitask

Breakfast includes fruit, yogurt parfaits, smoked beef bacon, and just enough interruption to be suspicious

Snooker and Weewee begin to wonder whether Daz and Pooky are remembering—or being prevented from remembering

Biscuit receives the scritches she deserves, because even magical conspiracies should respect the dachshund

⚠️ Content Advisory:

Cozy fantasy peril, fairy-tale mystery, references to stolen or traded babies, goblin king scheming, magical manipulation, suspicious Night Market advertising, memory enchantment implications, mild tension, domestic food descriptions, and tiny creatures being secretive on purpose.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts: Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story: Chapters, audio updates, and assorted cosmic memos arrive via inbox. Compliance is optional, but encouraged. 👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/

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❤️ Tap the heart button — engagement is magic 💬 Leave a comment — would you follow an enchanted flyer to The Night Market, or would you very sensibly put it under a salt pig and pretend you had never seen it?

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: Lullaby — JVNA

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Suspicious Night Markets Enchanted advertisements with terrible sales ethics Memory curses wrapped in bedtime stories Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged. 👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café — cozy chaos + BTS: 👉 https://coffeebunny.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web

Find me, Glory Fink, as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media: 🌤️ BlueSky 📸 Instagram 📹 YouTube 🎮 Twitch

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Until Next Time…

Keep your toast buttered, your salt pig close, and never trust a bargain at The Night Market unless the dachshund approves first.

Dinner has been eaten. Bellies have been filled. The brownies are ready to resume their tale — which means Daz and Pooky are about to hear about a mysterious old woman in the woods, a cottage that appears from nowhere, a dream that may not be only a dream, and a secret hot enough to vanish beneath the skin.

But while Snooker spins the story of Alta and Bubby Vama, Biscuit hears something outside.

And when Biscuit barks, darlings, the neighborhood listens.

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free

A brownie dinner reaches the “storytelling and satisfied belly noises” stage

Snooker resumes the tale of Alta, the canyon, and the strange woman in the woods

Bubby Vama offers tea, cookies, wisdom, and possibly too many secrets

A dream inside a story raises very inconvenient questions

A magical object makes an unsettling appearance

Biscuit detects trouble outside the back door

Daz grabs a baseball bat, Pooky grabs a crowbar, and the brownies consider the Goblin King as a reasonable suspect

Snack-based diplomacy continues to hold the household together

⚠️ Content Advisory

Cozy fantasy peril, references to knives, mysterious forest magic, ominous dreams, possible lurking creatures, a barking dog alarm, humorous discussion of thieves/home invaders/marauders, and fairy-tale levels of suspense softened by snacks.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to:

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted cosmic memos arrive via inbox. Compliance is optional, but encouraged. 👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/

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❤️ Tap the heart button — engagement is magic 💬 Leave a comment — would you trust Bubby Vama’s snacks, her secrets, or Biscuit’s barking first? 

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Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: Angel’s Dream — Aakash Gandhi

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged. 👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café — cozy chaos + BTS

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Until Next Time… Keep your snacks close, your doors locked, and your dachshund on plot patrol.

In this episode, Snooker begins a tale about a frightened young woman, a bottomless canyon, and the legendary Bubby Vama — but the night is late, the hosts are sleepy, and the brownies may be paying closer attention than anyone realizes. By morning, there are biscuits, chai, pepper gravy, sausage offerings for Biscuit, and one very important question left hanging in the air:

What exactly are Snooker and Weewee waiting for?

And why does the backyard contain rumors of a Goblin King in the blackberry brambles?

In This Episode — Spoiler-Free: ✨ Snooker begins a story-within-a-story about fear, wisdom, and a canyon no one can see the bottom of 🥐 Pooky makes the kind of breakfast that could end wars or start fairy contracts 🐾 Biscuit receives the respect due a noble hound, plus sausage 🏠 The brownies spend the night in an enormous dollhouse with plumbing, electricity, and suspicious realism 🫖 Daz plays hostess with dangerous levels of warmth and excellent tea service 🌿 A quiet backyard adventure begins with blackberry brambles and a very old rumor 👀 Snooker and Weewee clearly know more than they are saying, which is extremely rude and narratively delicious

⚠️ Content Advisory: Mild fantasy peril, fairy-tale anxiety, references to fear/obsession, tiny creature chase aftermath, suspenseful folklore hints, and extremely serious breakfast descriptions that may cause hunger.

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts: Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to: Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery

The Trouble with Angels https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork — and the story: Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged. 👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

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Credits Written & Read by Glory Fink Sound Engineering by Tom Fink Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod Additional Music: I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake Additional Music: No.2 Remembering Her — Esther Abrami

✨ Read/Listen If You Love: Willow-inspired brownie chaos Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts Cozy fantasy with teeth Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding Fairy-tale narrators with a wink Tiny people making enormous problems — and solving them Stories within stories Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy Suspiciously charming breakfasts Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment The Borrowers, but more feral The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters negotiated for sausage first

✅ New here? Start at the beginning: Season 1, Episode 1 — Chapter 1: Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunt https://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café — cozy chaos + BTS: 👉 https://coffeebunny.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web

Find me, Glory Fink, as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media: 🌤️ BlueSky 📸 Instagram 📹 YouTube 🎮 Twitch

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Until Next Time… Keep your biscuits buttered, your hounds well bribed, and never trust a blackberry bramble that knows more family history than it should.

On a cold new-moon night, Biscuit, a clever little dog, follows her nose into the backyard shadows and discovers exactly the sort of trouble respectable people pretend they do not have living in their shrubbery.

Two foul-mouthed brownies, one sunflower seed bucket, one terrifyingly ancient brother, and a promise of stories later… dinner is served, vows are made, and absolutely no one is prepared for what comes out of Snooker’s mouth next.

In This Episode (Spoiler-Free):

A very good dog with very specific professional interests

Two tiny criminals fresh from a mockingbird’s nest

The sacred fairy-tale law that storytellers must be fed

Chicken and dumplings, peach cobbler, and homemade teriyaki beef jerky

A brother whose eyes briefly suggest everyone should reconsider their tone

The beginning of a very strange storytelling arrangement 

⚠️ Content Advisory:Contains mild fairy-tale peril, comic threats, magical intimidation, captured mischievous creatures, food bargaining, sibling banter, naughty brownies, bird-nest theft, and one emotionally significant dachshund doing her absolute best. 

🎧 Listen Wherever You Get Your Podcasts:Spotify • Apple • YouTube • and beyond

✨ And if you want more of my audio stories, you can also listen to 

Sadie Cohen: Bounty Hunter and https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/sadie-cohen-bounty-hunter 

Boarding School Murder Mystery https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/boarding-school-murder-mystery 

The Trouble with Angels

https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/the-trouble-with-angels 

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story):Chapters, audio updates, and assorted cosmic memos arrive via inbox. Compliance is optional, but encouraged.👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/ 

💛 Help This Story Keep Finding Its People:

❤️ Tap the heart button — engagement is magic

💬 Leave a comment — what would you feed two brownies who promised to tell stories in exchange for dinner?

💛 Become a Financial Booster (Bob keeps receipts)

Paid subs and tips directly fund writing time, audio production, and whatever fresh nonsense the fair folk approve of next.☕ You can become a financial booster by becoming a paid subscriber to our Substack or you can Toss a few coins in our coffee fund on  → Ko-fi | Venmo | CashApp

Your support keeps indie storytelling caffeinated, chaotic, and just magical enough.

Credits

Written & Read by Glory Fink

Sound Engineering by Tom Fink

Original Story Series: Gloryous Magazine on Substack

Theme Music: FairyTale Waltz — Kevin MacLeod

Additional Music: Hopeless — Jimena Contreras

Additional Music: I’ll Remember You — Jeremy Blake

Additional Music: No.2 Remembering Her — Esther Abrami

✨ Read/Listen If You Love

Willow-inspired brownie chaos

Folklore creatures with no manners and excellent survival instincts

Cozy fantasy with teeth

Dogs who know exactly where the plot is hiding

Fairy-tale narrators with a wink

Tiny people making enormous problems (and solving them)

Stories within stories

Magical households, ancient siblings, and snack-based diplomacy

Terry Pratchett-adjacent mischief

Diana Wynne Jones-style enchantment

The Borrowers, but more feral

The Princess Bride energy, if the tiny side characters stole from birds first 

📬 Subscribe for the paperwork (and the story)

Chapters, audio updates, and assorted fairy tale nonsense arrive via inbox. Subscription is optional, but encouraged.👉 https://gloryfink.substack.com/s/those-dmn-brownies

✅ New here? Start at the beginning

Season 1, Episode 1 (Chapter 1): Biscuit’s Moonlit Hunthttps://gloryfink.substack.com/p/those-dmn-brownies-biscuits-moonlit 

☕ Coffee Bunny Crafter’s Café (cozy chaos + BTS):👉 https://coffeebunny.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web

Find me, Glory Fink as @Glory Writes The Blues, on social media: 🌤️ BlueSky 📸 Instagram 📹 YouTube 🎮 Twitch

📘 Facebook 🎵 TikTok @  Threads

Until Next Time…

Keep a light in the window, a story on your tongue, and a snack tucked away in case the fair folk come calling.