{"id":4636,"date":"2021-06-14T18:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T01:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T01:45:40","slug":"that-night-and-what-came-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/14\/that-night-and-what-came-after\/","title":{"rendered":"That Night And What Came After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I reached up to cover my eyes and when I lowered my hands again, she was gone. No not gone, not completely. I could still glimpse her through the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>I was aware that others had entered the room, and now I watched as a winged angel sailed out into the moonlit sky. I stood there speechless and motionless, one hand still strapped to the bed. I do not know who brought a coverlet and draped it around my nakedness. No one spoke for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>I remember little else. A sedative was administered and finally, I slept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>David Rae is an author of award winning flash fiction, short stories and two dark fantasy novels. His latest CROWTOWER is available <a href=\"http:\/\/brain-lag.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and more of his work can be read for free on his website <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/f5e925c1415b\/raedvdr\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Rae Stories<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached up to cover my eyes and when I lowered my hands again, she was gone. No not gone, not completely. I could still glimpse her through the clouds. I was aware that others had entered the room, and now I watched as a winged angel sailed out into the moonlit sky. I stood [&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":[1494,1060,6156,2720,41,10202,10203,2665,1736],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-angel","tag-clouds","tag-david-rae","tag-eyes","tag-guest-contributor","tag-moon-light","tag-nakedness","tag-night","tag-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}