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This collection of vignettes was originally written as part of the 2016 Spice and Wolf rewatch thread on Reddit's /r/anime subreddit. They were written with the intention of being read after watching each episode of the anime, although they can be read independently.

For the most part, each vignette was written with little to no planning in somewhere between one and three hours the night before the next episode thread went up. As such, the quality of the stories is... variable.

Although it was tempting to edit or even wholesale replace certain vignettes (Merchant and Despair in particular), that felt a little disingenuous. As a result, modifications to the vignettes have been limited to basic editing fixes, along with restoring some to their "un-cut" form now that character limits no longer apply.

In addition, two extra stories have been added. Wolf and Rhythm is derived from an idea that never made it into the collection itself. Wolf and Dragons was written quite some time ago, but I felt it made a reasonable capstone for the collection.

As a word of warning: Wolf and Dragons is set between volumes 14 and 15 of the light novel. It contains no explicit spoilers, but those actively reading the light novels may wish to skip it.

As a final note: due to technical problems with AO3, some text had to be changed from the original Reddit version.