Week - 185 The Spending Spree by nut862

Description: "Carl, this is the money we're going to buy food with," said the red Jetsam as he handed some coins to his brother. "Don't spend it!"

Week - 195 For The Life of a Pirate: Part One by nut862

Description: Wouldn’t it be fun to sleep in a hammock instead of a boring, unmoving bed, with the salt spray in his face and the wind blowing across the deck?

Week - 196 For The Life of a Pirate: Part Two by nut862

Description: Ron reached Krawk Island at last, dripping from his swim, but strangely exhilarated like never before. The dark didn’t bother him anymore. At last he could see the island he’d read so much about...

Week - 197 For The Life of a Pirate: Part Three by nut862

Description: She tried to calm herself down, telling herself that there were a lot of orange Krawks and that most of them were probably pirates. But she couldn’t shake the feeling that she had a clue at last, after years of fruitless search...

Week - 198 For The Life of a Pirate: Part Four by nut862

Description: “We have a treatment for stowaways, and that is that they must pay for their board by working around the ship.”

Week - 199 In The Spotlight by nut862

Description: Even though I'm a Rainbow Quiggle, I still enjoy Jubjub Day. I also enjoy Yurble Day and Koi Day and Moehog Day, and pretty much every pet day, as well as the normal days in between...

Week - 202 The Wishing Jewel: Part One by nut862

Description: Outside, faint rays of gentle morning sun warmed Mitara's face, and she smiled. The sounds of a busy day in Meridell reached her ears...

Week - 203 The Wishing Jewel: Part Two by nut862

Description: "No way! Are you crazy, Mitara? We're not giving THIS away!" Julan said, turning the jewel around in her paws so that the light caught it from all angles...

Week - 204 Mastering Hasee Bounce by nut862

Description: You’ve got a time limit! You didn’t think you could just keep those Hasees bouncing forever, did you?

Week - 206 The Faerie Pet: Part One by nut862

Description: The morning was sweltering with heat as the sun beat down on Neopia Central. I was sitting in my pond in the garden, which was little more than a puddle of water that barely came up to my blue Flotsam tummy...

Week - 207 The Faerie Pet: Part Two by nut862

Description: I swam up to the palace looming above me, and swam upwards, towards the nearest seaweed-covered window. I hesitated for just a moment, and then swam through the window. I was inside...

Week - 208 The Faerie Pet: Part Three by nut862

Description: I had to tell her that she'd gotten her information wrong or something, because I was definitely not going to be saving a queen anytime soon. That was out of my line of work...

Week - 209 The Faerie Pet: Part Four by nut862

Description: The blue Jetsam that had asked me to enter the palace to begin with was waiting outside. He swam up to me...

Week - 210 The Faerie Pet: Part Five by nut862

Description: Tears began to well in my eyes. Quiggler... Lulu... Sparkler! My siblings, the ones I loved... and my Greeble, Prince... was I never to see any of them again? Was I doomed to live in the darkness forever?

Week - 211 The Faerie Pet: Part Six by nut862

Description: In my surprise and awe at seeing Naiyania, I had almost forgotten about the power. Where had it come from? Or had it always been in me, and I'd just never known it was there?

Week - 206 Save the Slorgs! by nut862

Description: "Oh, no," the Yurble said. "They're gone. I Slorgerised them."

Week - 209 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: So that's what unhappy looks like...

Week - 210 An Interview With a Game Hero: a Certain Alien Aisha by nut862

Description: There’s a certain new game called Magma Blaster that, while being a very fun game with good payout, leaves many things unanswered. I decided to see if I could find out some inside information straight from the game’s own hero, an Alien Aisha.

Week - 211 Cheeriness Planted by nut862

Description: As I watched the bobber floating in the water, the metal fishhook hidden below the surface, I felt a bit of a thrill at the prospect of reeling in a sunken treasure. "Do you think we'll catch anything good today?"

Week - 213 Don't Eat Sloth's Fish! by nut862

Description: Fish as food! The very idea! Could any pet enjoy eating something that is staring up at them with those huge, bulbous eyes that all the fish have?

Week - 214 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: How can you tell?

Week - 214 A Day for a Ghost to Triumph by nut862

Description: "Vampires and ghosts are too common," she mumbled to herself. A thought occurred to her, and she said aloud, "I know - I'll dress as a Light Faerie! No one does that around here!"

Week - 218 Sanity Obsolete by evanescent_pudding

Description: Restock time!! Art by nut862

Week - 219 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: Me, disappointed?

Week - 220 Sanity Obsolete by evanescent_pudding

Description: Do you know why no one does your quests? Art by nut862

Week - 221 All Ears - Christmas Crossover! by evanescent_pudding

Description: You silly child! Art by nut862

Week - 222 Retired? Nah, Just Different! by hello5346

Description: There's nothing to do... Art by nut862

Week - 226 Pictures in the Clouds by nut862

Description: Jhudora admired the sky from her seat on her cloud. "This is one day that I want those lazy pets to go cloud-watching," she said, the corners of her mouth turning up into a giddy smile...

Week - 227 Why Do We Need Valentines Gifts, Anyway? by nut862

Description: "Yeah, I'd eat the chocolate long before I had a chance to give it to anyone," Hentor said...

Week - 230 Out of the Turmaculus' Jaws by nut862

Description: I watched the pets going down the streets with wide, bright eyes. They were fascinating to me, and so many of them looked friendly and kind...

Week - 231 Bullied by nut862

Description: Kesshe trotted happily towards the school gates at a brisk pace, swinging her lunchbox with pent-up excited energy. She was eager to meet many new friends at school...

Week - 234 Cream Cookies by nut862

Description: Somewhat alarmed, Illusen hurried out of the kitchen, carrying the tray of finished cream cookies. She tried not to drop it...

Week - 233 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: I guess I must be sick...

Week - 235 The Sleeper by nut862

Description: The Glowing Techo took a deep breath and threw her hand over the top of the cliff, taking hold of the hard dirt as soon as her palm touched it...

Week - 236 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: Wow, all better!

Week - 240 Sanity Obsolete by myfallenrevival4

Description: Nah, it couldn't be... Art by nut862

Week - 242 Oh, Joy, I'm Unhappy by nut862

Description: The strangest things cause pets to get unhappy: lack of food, for one.

Week - 244 Spring of Writing by nut862

Description: Far away from the Neopian Times office, in the crowded Games Room, a Speckled Kiko was staring intently at a jumbled network of pipes connected to vats of Juppie Juice...

Week - 245 Something Has Happened by tdyans

Description: You hear the cackling of a MAD PIRATE CAPTAIN. Art by nut862

Week - 250 Unnatural Beauty by nut862

Description: "I'm sorry, Prikkela," Ohndig said humbly. "I know you don't like me to be out this late. But you see, I absolutely had to..."

Week - 263 Bitten by Darkness by nut862

Description: Terrified, Morr stared at the window, expecting the creature to come back. After some minutes sitting up and watching the curtains wave, he lay back in his bed, trembling, and tried to go back to sleep. But the light stopped him...

Week - 269 Lucky Cake by nut862

Description: Tammy quickly looked up for some explanation of why a falling cake had just interrupted her relaxing morning. Then the cake erupted...

Week - 273 Charity is Like a Rotting Shoe by nut862

Description: The Money Tree is a fountain of wealth and charity... but wait, those bags of Neopoints aren’t growing out of the tree! What fraud is this? And why do most of the wonderful gifts consist of rotting footwear?

Week - 276 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: I'm also going to exercise more. My jaw muscles, that is.

Week - 278 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: That about sums it up.

Week - 279 Broken Scarabs by nut862

Description: Tomos squinted up into the white sun, willing it to stop shining for just an instant of relief. He could understand why thieves chose to work in the cool darkness of night. Why hadn't the princess ever tried a campaign to turn her entire population nocturnal? Art by nut862

Week - 282 Double Crossed by nut862

Description: "I have things I want to buy, too, you know. To do that I'll need money. And to get money..." A gleam came into his yellow eyes as he scanned the dark woods... Also by dan4884 Art by nut862

Week - 284 Protectors: Shared Dreams by nut862

Description: The Air Faerie cast a glance around her, at the towering mounds of clouds lit orange by the setting sun. She smiled at the peaks and valleys formed in the ground of the sky. If Altador was her city, these clouds were her kingdom. Art by nut862

Week - 283 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: I hear she's particularly good with flambé.

Week - 285 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: So the new plot began with a bang, otherwise known as the exploding pie incident.

Week - 293 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: Unfair advantage? No, no... it's clever strategy. Besides, lazy Jhudora's probably cheating too.

Week - 294 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: The cupcake might be delicious with gray icing, but black is pushing it.

Week - 323 One Bite Won't Hurt by nut862

Description: The red Aisha stood out like a sore thumb. She stood alone under a tree at the bottom of the rise, watching the Bruces soaring down the hill and laughing and pitching snow at each other... Art by nut862

Week - 329 Crystal Clear by nut862

Description: He'd take the crystal ball right from under Jhudora's crooked nose. Fyora's rewards would be well worth the effort...

Week - 336 Spelling Class by nut862

Description: Furthest. What rhymed with furthest? Rose scribbled some possible words in the margin of her notebook. This was how she passed much of her time at school...

Week - 393 The Happiest Quiggle by nut862

Description: I can't picture it either, but thinking about it makes me happy!

Week - 400 Defenders Good, Garoo Bad by nut862

Description: Sparkler and I are on a mission. We were sent by the Defenders of Neopia to locate Commander Garoo and bring him to justice...