{"id":2812,"date":"2017-08-04T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2017-08-09T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T17:30:05","slug":"skin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/08\/04\/skin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the weeks after her mother died, Pamela had no skin. Everything was surface\u2014every twitching nerve, every gush of bile. When Creepy Carl told her to smile as he dropped off his rent check, her lips peeled back to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>At home, she told Ben: I know about the girl you\u2019ve been fucking for the last four months. Your intern. In our God damn bed.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, baby, he said, it wasn\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n<p>But it was. She wouldn\u2019t have her raw insides sheathed in lies. She slept in the guest room, on top of the blankets, oozing resentment. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Carrie Cook<\/p>\n<p>Carrie received her MA in Creative Writing from Kansas State University and is currently living in Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Columbia Review, Midwestern Gothic, Menacing Hedge, and Bartleby Snopes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks after her mother died, Pamela had no skin. Everything was surface\u2014every twitching nerve, every gush of bile. When Creepy Carl told her to smile as he dropped off his rent check, her lips peeled back to the bone. At home, she told Ben: I know about the girl you\u2019ve been fucking for [&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":[758,2501,3708,3517,3098,6238,5365,2274,295,1107,108,41,6241,6239,134,4430,1319,3705,73,1859,6240,2392,2014,1821,5199],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-bed","tag-bile","tag-blankets","tag-bone","tag-carrie-cook","tag-creepy","tag-curse","tag-death","tag-girl","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guest-room","tag-gush","tag-home","tag-intern","tag-lies","tag-lips","tag-mother","tag-nerve","tag-rent-check","tag-resentment","tag-skin","tag-smile","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}