{"id":5577,"date":"2023-04-20T18:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:18:23","slug":"there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/04\/20\/there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere Is A Light That Never Goes Out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blessed Morrissey. Everyone sings. Jennifer\u2019s a junior and she has her own car. She starts the engine and on the summer night highway she says, \u201cWanna get kicked out of the Hilton?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in back on the hump, a hand on each front seat. Her hair, her piercings, her red glitter black lipstick shimmering in streetlights, so close. I want to whisper in her ear something so funny and sexy she just has to kiss me and we crash and I fly through the windshield but everyone who sees my body sees my black lipstick glitter mouth and knows.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYeah.\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/brook-bhagat.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brook Bhagat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brook is the author of Only Flying, a Pushcart-nominated collection of surreal poetry and flash fiction on paradox, rebellion, transformation, and enlightenment from Unsolicited Press. Her work has won contests at Loud Coffee Press and A Story in 100 Words, and it has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Empty Mirror, Soundings East, The Alien Buddha Goes Pop, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies. She is a founding editor of Blue Planet Journal and a professor of creative writing. Read her work and learn more about Only Flying at https:\/\/brook-bhagat.com\/.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed Morrissey. Everyone sings. Jennifer\u2019s a junior and she has her own car. She starts the engine and on the summer night highway she says, \u201cWanna get kicked out of the Hilton?\u201d I\u2019m in back on the hump, a hand on each front seat. Her hair, her piercings, her red glitter black lipstick shimmering in [&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":[1677,4499,1814,4358,2174,1816,11177,9738,41,1291,1416,11848,11849,10544,2052,1230,6601,11846,2212,11850,11851,11847,4194,2279],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-body","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-ear","tag-engine","tag-front-seat","tag-glitter","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-highway","tag-hilton","tag-hump","tag-junior","tag-kiss","tag-light","tag-lipstick","tag-morrissey","tag-mouth","tag-piercings","tag-streetlights","tag-summer-night","tag-whisper","tag-windshield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","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=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5578,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}