{"id":1539,"date":"2014-07-17T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:58:38","slug":"a-stubborn-speck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/07\/17\/a-stubborn-speck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stubborn Speck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The elevator doors close with a ding. Alone inside, she hums and checks the mirror. The speck on her cheek looks unsightly, like a coal mine bent forward and kissed her.<\/p>\n<p>She pulls out a tissue from her bag, and dabs at it. No luck. Nagging speck, like someone spit tar on to her face. Two more tissues, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The skin around it is reddening.  Three more tissues, one after another. She\u2019s getting restless as her floor draws near.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh tissue does the trick. Someone from behind was kind enough to hand it to her.<\/p>\n<p>The elevator doors open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor, Indu Pillai<\/p>\n<p>Indu is a commercial writer based in Bangalore. Her fiction has appeared in Mash Stories and 50-Word Stories. She delights in all kinds of stories, written and unwritten. Twitter: @InduPillai01<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elevator doors close with a ding. Alone inside, she hums and checks the mirror. The speck on her cheek looks unsightly, like a coal mine bent forward and kissed her. She pulls out a tissue from her bag, and dabs at it. No luck. Nagging speck, like someone spit tar on to her face. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2654,2184,2846,2843,2842,2838,41,2844,2849,2052,1347,2014,2845,2848,2847],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bag","tag-cheek","tag-coal-mine","tag-ding","tag-elevator","tag-face","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hum","tag-indu-pillai","tag-kiss","tag-mirror","tag-skin","tag-speck","tag-tar","tag-tissue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}