I wrote this ghost story last week. Please print it out and read it to your friends around a campfire or in another suitable context.<\/p>\n
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Farmer Gordon and his goat ambled down the road. Gordon goaded Gordon’s goat, but Gordon’s goat slowed.<\/p>\n
“Go, go!” Gordon groaned. “We’re in the Weird Wood! Sun is setting! Darkness growing! Slowing bad! Going good!”<\/p>\n
Gordon’s goat stopped completely. Gordon sighed slowly, weakly.<\/p>\n
“Okay, Goat. Stay, goat. I’ll be on my way. All of us back home will mourn you. I’ll tell them that I tried to warn you.”<\/p>\n
Gordon glowered grimly. Gordon’s goat wouldn’t go. Gordon grimaced glumly.<\/p>\n
“I’m defeated,” he conceded. Down the path Gordon proceeded…<\/p>\n
“GOLD,” Gordon’s goat bleated.<\/p>\n
“Gold? Gold???” Gordon repeated.<\/p>\n
“Gold!” Gordon’s goat wailed. “Weird Wood holds gold! I know! I’ll show! Within the Wood! Let’s go!”<\/p>\n
Gordon’s face went pale.<\/p>\n
Through the trees went Gordon’s goat. A lump rose in Gordon’s throat. Gordon’s fears Gordon swallowed; through the trees Gordon followed.<\/p>\n
Gordon’s goat goaded Gordon onward through the wood. Gordon wondered while he wandered whether Gordon should.<\/p>\n
“Gold!” Gordon’s goat reminded. “You’ll find gold, and when you find it, there your dreams are also found! No more bossing goats around; you’ll be lounging in silk gowns, with human maids surrounding, serving milk in silver goblets, and mopping up your spilt droplets.”<\/p>\n
Gordon gobbled down all his goat’s gilded words. He was perfectly persuaded by the promises he heard.<\/p>\n
Snapping, rumbling, screeching, pounding, winding, bending, breaking, trembling, trampling, curling, coiling, seeking the center of the Weird Wood\u2014<\/p>\n
“STOP” screamed Gordon’s Goat. Gordon glimpsed a glittering grotto.<\/p>\n
“Go, Gordon!” Gordon’s goat goaded. “Go and grab your golden goal!”<\/p>\n
Gordon crawled into the cave. All the walls were shimmering, shining with the glow the gold gave. Tunnels twisted him around, squirming, worming deeper down.<\/p>\n
As the twinkling tunnel ended, Gordon had to shield his eyes. Piles of gold! But from his prize a sparkling spectral spook ascended!<\/p>\n
“Ghost! Ghost!” Gordon gasped.<\/p>\n
“Greed,” Gordon’s goat giggled.<\/p>\n
The golden ghost gobbled Gordon as he cried and cursed his gold. But Gordon’s goat just ignored him, and ambled onward down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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