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Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Languorous Lass on August 17, 2021, 01:45:38 AM
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Cast of Wonders 462: Straw-Spun (https://www.castofwonders.org/2021/08/cast-of-wonders-462-straw-spun/)
• Author: Leah Cypess (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/leah-cypess/)
• Narrator: Suna Dasi (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/suna-dasi/)
• Host: KB Sluss (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/kb-sluss/)
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/jeremy-carter/)
• Artist: Alexis Goble (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/alexis-goble/)
"Straw-Spun" was previously published in Sword and Sorceress 27 (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?404649), November 2012.
Click here to listen to Episode 462 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/castofwonders/Wonders462.mp3)
Alina unfolded the letter slowly and with great care: it was very old, and felt thin and fragile under her steady fingertips. Her heart was pounding in a way unfamiliar to her, and not just because of the whispers she had heard on the way to the throne room: gold to straw from two passing courtiers, the end of the peace from a duke to a lady, Rumpelstiltskin – she hadn’t turned fast enough to see who’d said that.
She had come to the sitting room to ask her father about the whispers, but before she could say a word, he had handed her the letter. She smoothed out the last fold and focused on the ornate, flowing script so similar to her own.
The king was watching her. She composed her face and read.
Tags: Alexis Goble, betrothal, daughters, economics, fae, Faery, fairy tale, families, fathers, gold, Jeremy Carter, KB Sluss, Leah Cypess, love, politics, princess, responsibility, Rumplestiltskin, Suna Dasi, young adult fiction
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I really like the retelling of fairy tales, and this one, being somewhat a continuation, felt even more interesting. I wrote a review for a story about The Cutter and the Thumb-sucker, but I don't remember which Espace Artitists Podcasts that was.
I wans't going to listen to this one, but I changed my name when I saw that it was published in "Sword and Sorceress Magazine". I'd never heard about it so I decided to give it ago (I like the genre a lot). Much more sorcery than sword in this one though.
PS: Rumpelstiltskin is about taking responsibility for your actions, and I laughed about “responsibility” being in the tags.