{"id":4879,"date":"2021-12-06T23:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T06:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T06:26:55","slug":"crossing-the-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/06\/crossing-the-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing The Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The greatroom was full to bursting, ghosts everywhere: playing charades, talking, resting, dancing, darting between clusters of spirits engaged in various means of whiling away time.<\/p>\n<p>A newly-born ghost appeared at the doorway and paused at the chaos. The chaos paused in return, all eyes upon the newcomer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome in, Dearie, and welcome,\u201d Eve, the oldest of them all, beckoned.<\/p>\n<p>The new arrival apprehensively crossed the threshold. The others returned to their various activities.<\/p>\n<p>Eve helped the new ghost settle in. Did she have any questions?<\/p>\n<p>Just one, the young ghost said, voice wavering: \u201cWhen do they notice you\u2019re gone?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Melissa Ridley Elmes <\/p>\n<p>Melissa is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit-hole. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Reunion; The Dallas Review Online, Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, Gyroscope, In Parentheses, and other print and web venues, and her first book of poetry, Arthurian Things: A Collection of Poems, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @MRidleyElmes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatroom was full to bursting, ghosts everywhere: playing charades, talking, resting, dancing, darting between clusters of spirits engaged in various means of whiling away time. A newly-born ghost appeared at the doorway and paused at the chaos. The chaos paused in return, all eyes upon the newcomer. \u201cCome in, Dearie, and welcome,\u201d Eve, 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":[6072,10608,2500,10606,10607,3029,10605,68,545,10604,41,10602,10610,10609,1876,6545,663,10603,1109,2362],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-activities","tag-all-eyes","tag-chaos","tag-charades","tag-clusters","tag-doorway","tag-everywhere","tag-ghost","tag-ghosts","tag-greatroom","tag-guest-contributor","tag-melissa-ridley-elmes","tag-new-arrival","tag-newcomer","tag-questions","tag-return","tag-spirits","tag-threshold","tag-time","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","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=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}