{"id":46,"date":"2015-10-14T04:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2017-01-31T04:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:20:40","slug":"dragon-brother-and-other-stories-by-marissa-lingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Brother and Other Stories by Marissa Lingen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Brother and Other Stories\" width=\"474\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover.jpg 1807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ildreth just wanted to play with her friends without her four-year-old brother tagging along. But her mom insisted, and now the barn\u2019s on fire, he\u2019s taking jewelry to hoard in a cave, and he\u2019s off to fight bandits on the road to town. What is she going to do?<\/p>\n<p>In these ten stories, prolific short story writer Marissa Lingen will introduce you to a shop that sells memories, a girl who\u2019s harder to see than the devil, a monkey inventor, a disappearing grandma, a girl who learns to spin straw into goats, a cursed frog prince, an imaginary friend who is more than he seems, three grannies on a quest to rescue a princess, and a witch in training at her first boy-girl party.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, a girl who just happens to have a dragon for a little brother.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon Brother and Other Stories is available in paperback and Kindle editions<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HQKZ9Z8\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B00HQKZ9Z8&amp;linkId=87f4392ebf31d360dcdd270d71530300\" target=\"_blank\"> on Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecover.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ildreth just wanted to play with her friends without her four-year-old brother tagging along. But her mom insisted, and now the barn\u2019s on fire, he\u2019s taking jewelry to hoard in a cave, and he\u2019s off to fight bandits on the road to town. What is she going to do? In these ten stories, prolific short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/?p=46\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dragon Brother and Other Stories by Marissa Lingen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[11,8],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens","category-fiction","tag-fantasy","tag-marissa-lingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiredtapir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}