{"id":6017,"date":"2024-04-04T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:32:12","slug":"you-are-fine-as-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/04\/04\/you-are-fine-as-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Fine As You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With your failures your fears your wrong body your clutter your stains your dirty mind and the night you can\u2019t take back and what you shouldn\u2019t have said out loud and what you should\u2019ve said but couldn\u2019t didn\u2019t because you were afraid selfish angry shy and the thing they said that you can\u2019t forget and maybe it is true and the wreck the ruins so much wasted time and you didn\u2019t even call and the way you looked at her even though you knew even after even now and even with those horrible Crocs<\/p>\n<p>you are fine as you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/p>\n<p>Brook (she\/her) 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 or placed in the top two in contests at Loud Coffee Press, A Story in 100 Words, and most recently, the Pikes Peak Library District 2023 fiction contest. It has been published in Monkeybicycle, Empty Mirror, Soundings East, The Alien Buddha Goes Pop, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and elsewhere. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/brook-bhagat.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/brook-bhagat.com\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your failures your fears your wrong body your clutter your stains your dirty mind and the night you can\u2019t take back and what you shouldn\u2019t have said out loud and what you should\u2019ve said but couldn\u2019t didn\u2019t because you were afraid selfish angry shy and the thing they said that you can\u2019t forget and [&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":[1677,4499,12589,12592,12590,6492,41,2665,1320,6600,6765,12591],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-body","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-clutter","tag-crocs","tag-dirty-mind","tag-failures","tag-guest-contributor","tag-night","tag-ruins","tag-stains","tag-thing","tag-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","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=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}