{"id":4012,"date":"2020-05-01T17:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:29:04","slug":"historical-fiction-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/01\/historical-fiction-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Fiction Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call me a sucker for Shakespeare, but my choice for the best Historical Fiction entry is Lady Macbeth, by Linda Lowe.<\/p>\n

Here it is again, in case you missed it:<\/em><\/p>\n

Life had become so boring, so beige boring. Every day it was hound the maids, light the candles, greet the guests. Then along came prophecy! What\u2019s not to believe about a witch, let alone three? Once again, my world oozed with possibility.<\/p>\n

What came to pass? Life in red, gushing red. There was blood in the soup, blood in the stew, blood on the hands of my husband. I thought about the plagues in Egypt, the Pharaoh who knew about miracles turned against him. I thought about science. That what flows, surely ebbs? While the old king\u2019s blood ran blue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations Linda, and thanks to everyone who submitted stories to our first ever contest. In my book, you’re all winners!<\/p>\n

And if you want to read the other submissions, you can find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of special note, a lot of you submitted more than one story, and because I was only posting one story per day, I didn’t want to have repeat submissions early in the month crowd out first-time submitters. I’ll be posting those extra submissions in the coming weeks. Moving forward, I’ll close submissions before I start posting. <\/p>\n

I’ll be announcing a new contest soon, but in the meantime, keep submitting stories!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call me a sucker for Shakespeare, but my choice for the best Historical Fiction entry is Lady Macbeth, by Linda Lowe. Here it is again, in case you missed it: Life had become so boring, so beige boring. Every day it was hound the maids, light the candles, greet the guests. Then along came prophecy! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8744,102,8896,7920,443],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-contest","tag-historical-fiction","tag-lady-macbeth","tag-linda-lowe","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}