{"id":576,"date":"2010-02-17T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-02-18T02:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T06:14:23","slug":"wrote-a-new-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Wrote a new short story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002LITS5W?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wizardwalk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002LITS5W\">Orson Scott Card&#8217;s InterGalactic Medicine Show (v. 1)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002LITS5W\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8212; a collection of short stories from his online magazine.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t read that many short story anthologies, but of the ones I have read, this is definitely one of the best.\u00a0 Plenty of really awesome sci-fi and fantasy short stories in here.\u00a0 I really enjoyed all the stories, but the ones I especially thought were awesome were <em>Audience<\/em> by Ty Franck, <em>The Box of Beautiful Things<\/em> by Brian Dolton, and <em>Taint of Treason<\/em> by Eric James Stone.\u00a0 And, being an Ender fan, all of the Ender universe stories by Orson Scott Card were great.<\/p>\n<p>While reading <em>Taint of Treason<\/em>, I got a sudden idea for a short story myself, and quickly wrote it while it was fresh in my mind.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only about 1,900 words; I think that&#8217;s that shortest short story I&#8217;ve ever written (not that I&#8217;ve written very many).\u00a0 It&#8217;s called <em>Maker of the Twenty-first Moon<\/em> and is about a man who sets out to kill a wizard before he takes over the world.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t that sound great?<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s really all I wanted to say today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Orson Scott Card&#8217;s InterGalactic Medicine Show (v. 1) &#8212; a collection of short stories from his online magazine.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t read that many short story anthologies, but of the ones I have read, this is definitely one of the best.\u00a0 Plenty of really awesome sci-fi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[191,192],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-9i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}