{"id":817,"date":"2014-11-15T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2014-11-15T06:26:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:26:30","slug":"some-flash-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Some flash fiction&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Found some old flash fiction stuff from years ago just now&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\u201cIn this dream, I was a bird,\u201d she said softly as they lay together.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat kind of bird?\u201d he asked as he took another drag off his cigarette.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know, a fast one I guess. I had really sharp talons and a really sharp nose.\u201d<br \/>\nHe laughed softly, chiding her, \u201cBirds don\u2019t have noses. They have beaks.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBeaks, noses, whatever, it was sharp!\u201d she said, at the same time digging a finger into his side to tickle him in retaliation for correcting her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>There was something about the way the woman kept looking at him that made his skin crawl. It wasn\u2019t necessarily a <em>bad<\/em> sort of creepy, but it was creepy nonetheless. <em><br \/>\nWhy does she keep staring at me?<\/em> he thought.<br \/>\nHe reached up and behind him to grab the stop-line, unable to take his eyes off her. He\u2019d walk the extra nine blocks in the dark just to get off the bus and away from the weirdo.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy bologna used to have a first name, it was H-E-A-V-Y-M-E-A-T,\u201d Ryan sang as Eric drove them down the old logging road like a bat out of hell.<br \/>\n\u201cThat ain\u2019t how it goes, ya stupid jackass!\u201d Eric shouted above the heavy metal blaring on the stereo.<br \/>\nHow he heard Ryan singing a stupid song in the first place was a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found some old flash fiction stuff from years ago just now&#8230; \u201cIn this dream, I was a bird,\u201d she said softly as they lay together. \u201cWhat kind of bird?\u201d he asked as he took another drag off his cigarette. \u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[401,400,33,402,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}