So: I recently finished
Whose Love Follows Still, a somewhere-in-the-neighborhood-of-15k-words-long story based on Norse mythology. My current audience is too small for ransom-model funding to be fair to early sponsors. For that and a few other reasons, this story is free if you want,
pay if you like. Did you want genderless shapeshifters and their social mores? Or sappy mother-child relationships? Or slightly twisted humor? Or Thor and Loki? Or adventures in Hawaii-at-Iceland's-latitude (i.e., lazily-worldbuilt Jotunheim)? Because all of those are in this story, all of which is available right now, for free unless you choose otherwise.