{"id":4460,"date":"2021-02-03T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:07:05","slug":"do-it-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/02\/03\/do-it-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Do It Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do it well, honey. My lover\u2019s voice echoed inside me as I stabbed my wife repeatedly. Fear flashed in her doe-like eyes. She fell to the wet forest floor and crawled away. I grabbed her ankle and pulled. On my umpteenth attempt, my knife struck through her neck, severing her jugular vein. Blood splattered. The light faded out of her eyes. I rolled her up in a plastic sheet and buried her. Later, I stumbled into my home, choking on her perfume. There she stood in front of me. \u201cWhat?\u201d I gasped. She brandished a knife. Sharper than my own.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Fusako Ohki<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Toshiya Kamei<\/p>\n<p>Fusako Ohki is a Japanese writer from Tokyo. She obtained her master\u2019s degree in Japanese literature from Hosei University. Her debut collection of short fiction is forthcoming in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do it well, honey. My lover\u2019s voice echoed inside me as I stabbed my wife repeatedly. Fear flashed in her doe-like eyes. She fell to the wet forest floor and crawled away. I grabbed her ankle and pulled. On my umpteenth attempt, my knife struck through her neck, severing her jugular vein. Blood splattered. The [&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":[7294,4791,8152,281,9824,2720,899,3309,812,9823,41,134,1307,9825,1735,1230,2420,5925,2036,9827,9650,9826,2362,153],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-a-beautiful-life","tag-ankle","tag-attempt","tag-blood","tag-doe","tag-eyes","tag-fear","tag-floor","tag-forest","tag-fusako-ohki","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-honey","tag-jugular","tag-knife","tag-light","tag-neck","tag-perfume","tag-plastic","tag-sheet","tag-toshiya-kamei","tag-vein","tag-voice","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","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=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}