1gwendetenebre
"La Madre del Oro" by Jeffrey Ford.
Discussion begins December 18, 2024.
First published in Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (2014).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?834779
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West
ONLINE VERSIONS
No online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://podcastle.org/2014/05/14/podcastle-311-la-madre-del-oro/
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford
https://www.well-builtcity.com/podcasts----stories-and-interviews.html
https://tinyurl.com/mb3uw2he
Discussion begins December 18, 2024.
First published in Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (2014).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?834779
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West
ONLINE VERSIONS
No online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://podcastle.org/2014/05/14/podcastle-311-la-madre-del-oro/
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford
https://www.well-builtcity.com/podcasts----stories-and-interviews.html
https://tinyurl.com/mb3uw2he
4AndreasJ
La madre del oro is the Spanish translation of the Portuguese mãe do ouro, a Brazilian legendary creature - portrayed as a fireball and/or a blonde woman - who warns miners of places not to dig for gold.
So did George kill and eat anyone, or was he misblamed for the monsters' depredations? Or was he, as suggested by his origin story, one of the monsters himself? His corpse doesn't appear to have looked nonhuman.
So did George kill and eat anyone, or was he misblamed for the monsters' depredations? Or was he, as suggested by his origin story, one of the monsters himself? His corpse doesn't appear to have looked nonhuman.
