Dang! You're GOOD at this!!! I'm hoping to hear you do spend more than five minutes on these freewrites. They're just too polished and well written not to be. I love "colorless wife" - and the husband's confidence vs the wife's intuition. I'm already planning their defense: they didn't steal the goose; the eggs just appeared in their yard; therefore, the gold is theirs to keep. Legally, I am right! But then neighbors won't see it that way....
These definitely take more than 5 minutes with editing, but I try to keep the initial draft in that window. But also I write fiction professionally so I think all that practice speeds me up. Plus tossing them into grammarly so there's fewer typos.
I suspect a cache of gold might invoke treasure hunting laws if they went public with it, unless they can prove it's not old or historical. This has made me think a lot about wtf I'd even do with an egg made out of gold, should I ever find one.
LOL! Sounds like another freewrite prompt - what you'd do if you found old treasure that can't be sold without attracting The Law. Or the previous owner out to reclaim the treasure.
Now, to find your publications... (save me some time and post a link here?) :)
I'm anonymous here! Maybe on discord. I don't want to link my author name to here in case I use steem to complain about writer-y things.
You are very very wise. (No wonder you have what looks like an owl to me for a profile photo!)