{"id":284,"date":"2013-03-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/01\/friday-flash-fiction-a-middle-portion-of-the-star-sailors-tale\/"},"modified":"2013-03-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:00:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-a-middle-portion-of-the-star-sailors-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/01\/friday-flash-fiction-a-middle-portion-of-the-star-sailors-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;A Middle Portion of the Star-Sailor&#8217;s Tale&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you did, in fact, read <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/first-half-of-star-sailors-tale.html\">both<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/second-half-of-star-sailors-tale.html\">parts<\/a> of the original tale last February.  But I recently expanded it to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/literature.ucsd.edu\/affiliated-programs\/clarion\/apply.html\">Clarion<\/a>&#8216;s 2,500-word minimum for an application story, and this is one of the middle sections.  It&#8217;s not a <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Retcon\">retcon<\/a>&#8211;it&#8217;s a rewrite!<\/p>\n<p>ALSO: Suck it, act two problems.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.231\">&#8220;A Middle Portion of the Star-Sailor&#8217;s Tale&#8221;<\/a> at <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you did, in fact, read both parts of the original tale last February. But I recently expanded it to meet Clarion&#8216;s 2,500-word minimum for an application story, and this is one of the middle sections. It&#8217;s not a retcon&#8211;it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}