Straw. Gold.

[mrissa]

I should be away from the computer and getting ready for bed, but like Arlo says, you can't always do what you're supposed to be doing. So what I did instead is celebrate International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day by putting a reprint up. Goats' Gold is not a very serious story, but it's free to all who want to read it. Originally appeared in Spellbound, which was a children's magazine. Suitable for the kiddies, and not just by my "cut my teeth on Norse myth" standards. It's not very long, but it's goofy, and it's mine own.

Now don't say I never gave you nothin'.

Comments

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I liked it. It made me laugh.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[brooksmoses]

I liked it too. Thank you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You are quite welcome.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[windcedar.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good story. :) Thank you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.

[arkuat]

That may be my favorite fruit of pixel-stained technopeasant Shakespeare's birthday so far. I'll have to read it a second time before I know for sure.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I won't tell the others.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

That was excellent :)
Thank you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ah, but thank you.

[shana.livejournal.com]

That was fun.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a Rumpelstiltskin story! I don't see many of those around, although possibly I'm looking in the wrong places. I like it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Jane Yolen's is awesome in a wrenching sort of way. Very very different from mine.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I think Donna Jo Napoli...yes, with Richard Tchen...wrote Spinners, which is another very different one. As I recall, I didn't actually like it very much, but it does exist.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

This is such a you story, or at least a you-who-comes-through-the-internet story. Heeheehee.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, that'd be the real me. Not all of me. But definitely me.

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Love it!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

A trick! A proper trick, and one I hadn't heard before. I like it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

I'd like to send a link to my mom if you don't mind, I think she'd like the story very much.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't mind. Please do.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Yes. Thank you. I like it rather better that way. The original has always left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth.

-Nameseeker

[tewok.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the story! I quite enjoyed it.

I've read a few books of Norwegian folk tales and troll tales recently, and "Goat's Gold" has just the right feel. (Norwegian, Swedish, it's all one big peninsula, right?)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!