{"id":5301,"date":"2012-09-23T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2012-09-23T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T17:00:01","slug":"flash-fiction-week-revenge-week-ending-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Week: Revenge! (Week Ending September 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not every writer spends his or her days thinking about mayhem and murder. Sure, there are those — like\u00a0Sara Paretsky,\u00a0James Patterson, or Michael Connelly — who write mystery or crime stories for a living. But most writers don’t spend their days thinking about the darker side of the human condition.<\/p>\n

We all secretly want to get even with someone at some time or another. Maybe it’s an ex-lover, an evil boss, an annoying co-worker, or a neighbor who mows the lawn at 6:00 a.m. every Saturday. But for most of us, a desire for payback is a fleeting thought that quickly goes away.<\/p>\n

One of our writers (Jason<\/a>) recommended that our flash fiction assignment this month should challenge our writers to think hard about getting even. With no other conditions or restrictions, he suggested the writers create a 1000-word “revenge story.”<\/p>\n

This week at the Cafe, our writers are giving us flash fiction with a retribution theme. Whether funny or heartbreaking, frightening or amazing, these stories are going to entertain you.<\/p>\n

Until Next Week,<\/p>\n

The Cafe Management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not every writer spends his or her days thinking about mayhem and murder. Sure, there are those — like\u00a0Sara Paretsky,\u00a0James Patterson, or Michael Connelly — who write mystery or crime stories for a living. But most writers don’t spend their days thinking about the darker side of the human condition. We all secretly want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[422,936],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-flash-fiction","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}