{"id":5411,"date":"2023-01-04T17:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2023-01-05T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:04:51","slug":"wandering-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/01\/04\/wandering-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I killed the crew of the Wandering Star, humanity\u2019s last hope.<\/p>\n<p>A desperate mission to find a new home. The ship crashed into this lonesome planet of obsidian.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019ve lost my mind. But I heard a voice calling me here. A soft whisper in the dark. They called me insane, said I\u2019d gone AWOL. Tried to lock me up.<\/p>\n<p>I wandered the surface, guided by the whisper, until I stood in its shadow, a great five-pointed upside-down black star floating high above.<\/p>\n<p>I wept when I realized why I\u2019d been led here. The leviathan declaring the end of humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/es\/Black-Hare-Press-ebook\/dp\/B0BPQF37L3\/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&#038;crid=3VE7QDOBZJ0SX&#038;keywords=year+five+dark+moments+and+patreons&#038;qid=1671759494&#038;sprefix=year+five+dark+moments+and+patreons%2Caps%2C116&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Ansell Pearson <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rick lives and works in central Mexico. His fiction can be found forthcoming in Year Five: Dark Moments and Patreons, published by Black Hare Press. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I killed the crew of the Wandering Star, humanity\u2019s last hope. A desperate mission to find a new home. The ship crashed into this lonesome planet of obsidian. Maybe I\u2019ve lost my mind. But I heard a voice calling me here. A soft whisper in the dark. They called me insane, said I\u2019d gone AWOL. [&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":[11592,2488,41,134,2506,541,7240,1633,2922,2491,52,11591,1240,11590,3542,1459,1584,5199,10423,2362,4194],"class_list":["post-5411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-awol","tag-crew","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-insane","tag-leviathan","tag-mind","tag-mission","tag-murder","tag-obsidian","tag-planet","tag-rick-ansell-pearson","tag-shadow","tag-ship","tag-star","tag-surface","tag-the-dark","tag-voice","tag-whisper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411","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=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}