{"id":55,"date":"2015-02-03T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:57:03","slug":"blurry-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/blurry-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"When Memory Lane is Too Blurry for a Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again &#8212; Charli Mills&#8217; Carrot Ranch <a title=\"Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/carrotranch.com\/2015\/01\/29\/january-28-flash-fiction-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">flash fiction challenge<\/a>. I unfortunately did not get to participate in last week&#8217;s challenge because work sucked me into quite a deep pool of sludge. But hooray\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0I survived! And today I have finally started to feel human once again, so I worked on the challenge and am sliding in juuuussst under the wire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week&#8217;s prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about disorientation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-60 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/file3891266879378-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"clubbing\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/file3891266879378-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/file3891266879378-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/file3891266879378-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Stagnant cologne emanated from her clothes, suffocating her in the tiny kitchen. Remnants of a late-night burger were piled on the unfamiliar Formica counter. Her stomach lurched, belching up bubbles laced with last night\u2019s Stolichnaya, and she wiped crusty mascara from her eyes. Her head pulsated in a dull thud while flashing visions of popcorn ceilings and her red lace bra and her keys clanging against cold bathroom tile. She shuffled from the kitchen just as she heard a door handle click open. She froze, pleading with her synapses to connect the dots. Just whose apartment was she in?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now I have got to turn off the court shows and get some work done. I am finally returning to the <a title=\"Twitternovella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/twitternovella\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitternovella story<\/a>\u00a0so I can\u00a0finish it, along with a couple of other new stories that have been percolating on the back burners. They are deliciously\u00a0disturbing stories, so I thought they would\u00a0make nice Valentine&#8217;s Day stories [and yes, that comment\u00a0was thick with sarcasm].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again &#8212; Charli Mills&#8217; Carrot Ranch flash fiction challenge. I unfortunately did not get to participate in last week&#8217;s challenge because work sucked me into quite a deep pool of sludge. But hooray\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0I survived! And today I have finally started to feel human once again, so I worked on the challenge and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,16,6],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-carrot-ranch","tag-flash-fiction","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WVQN-T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}