{"id":3852,"date":"2020-02-12T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2020-02-13T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:53:35","slug":"bottles-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/02\/12\/bottles-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottles Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nick is aroused by the clinking of bottles in the fridge. Mother\u2019s having another drink.<\/p>\n<p>That old clink, so familiar. It\u2019s a constant sound since Dad took off, piercing Nick\u2019s twelve-year old ears.<\/p>\n<p>Cue Mother\u2019s laughter, cackling. Cracked.<\/p>\n<p>He can\u2019t tell Mother what it means to see tenderness replaced by laughter. Rage. Bills go unpaid, furniture disappears. But night after night, bottles take over. Wine, vodka. Beer.<\/p>\n<p>One night, Nick sneaks downstairs, removes each bottle with methodical coldness. Hurls each one at the floor.<\/p>\n<p>He shatters again and again, surveys the ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, more will appear. He\u2019ll do it again. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Yash Seyedbagheri <\/p>\n<p>Yash is a graduate of Colorado State University&#8217;s MFA program in fiction. His story, &#8220;Soon,&#8221; was nominated for a Pushcart.  Yash\u2019s stories are forthcoming or have been published in Caf\u00e9 Lit, Mad Swirl, 50 Word Stories, and Ariel Chart, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick is aroused by the clinking of bottles in the fridge. Mother\u2019s having another drink. That old clink, so familiar. It\u2019s a constant sound since Dad took off, piercing Nick\u2019s twelve-year old ears. Cue Mother\u2019s laughter, cackling. Cracked. He can\u2019t tell Mother what it means to see tenderness replaced by laughter. Rage. Bills go unpaid, [&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":[3699,3817,7755,8638,8641,1024,6639,3703,3309,5659,2169,41,1762,600,73,2665,3342,1320,2914,8639,8640,1796,8327],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beer","tag-bills","tag-bottles","tag-clink","tag-coldness","tag-dad","tag-downstairs","tag-drink","tag-floor","tag-fridge","tag-furniture","tag-guest-contributor","tag-laughter","tag-love","tag-mother","tag-night","tag-rage","tag-ruins","tag-sound","tag-tenderness","tag-vodka","tag-wine","tag-yash-seyedbagheri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","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=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}