Marissa Lingen ([info]mrissa) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 22:09:00
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Straw. Gold.
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'.


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[info]zwol
2008-04-24 03:58 am UTC (link)
I liked it. It made me laugh.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Thank you.

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[info]brooksmoses
2008-04-24 04:33 am UTC (link)
I liked it too. Thank you!

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
You are quite welcome.

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[info]miz_hatbox
2008-04-24 04:50 am UTC (link)
Lovely!

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]windcedar
2008-04-24 05:43 am UTC (link)
Oh, that's a good story. :) Thank you!

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
You're very welcome.

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[info]arkuat
2008-04-24 08:46 am UTC (link)
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.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 01:17 pm UTC (link)
I won't tell the others.

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[info]intrepida
2008-04-24 10:24 am UTC (link)
That was excellent :)
Thank you!

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Ah, but thank you.

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[info]slrose
2008-04-24 01:04 pm UTC (link)
That was fun.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]sam_t
2008-04-24 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, a Rumpelstiltskin story! I don't see many of those around, although possibly I'm looking in the wrong places. I like it.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:53 pm UTC (link)
Jane Yolen's is awesome in a wrenching sort of way. Very very different from mine.

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[info]callunav
2008-04-24 08:10 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]diatryma
2008-04-24 01:48 pm UTC (link)
This is such a you story, or at least a you-who-comes-through-the-internet story. Heeheehee.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Yah, that'd be the real me. Not all of me. But definitely me.

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[info]writingortyping
2008-04-24 02:24 pm UTC (link)
Love it!

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-24 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]callunav
2008-04-24 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I like that.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-25 11:21 am UTC (link)
Glad to hear it.

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[info]cattitude
2008-04-25 02:34 am UTC (link)
A trick! A proper trick, and one I hadn't heard before. I like it.

Edited at 2008-04-25 02:35 am UTC

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-25 11:22 am UTC (link)
Thank you.

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[info]hypatia_j
2008-04-25 03:42 am UTC (link)
I'd like to send a link to my mom if you don't mind, I think she'd like the story very much.

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[info]mrissa
2008-04-25 11:22 am UTC (link)
Of course I don't mind. Please do.

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[info]ashnistrike
2008-04-27 06:43 pm UTC (link)
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

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[info]tewok
2008-05-10 07:03 pm UTC (link)
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?)

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[info]mrissa
2008-05-11 12:52 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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