{"id":2235,"date":"2013-11-01T00:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2013-11-01T02:01:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:01:15","slug":"chinatown-rebecca-t-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/chinatown-rebecca-t-kaplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Contest Winner: Chinatown Rebecca T. Kaplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/writingsense\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Last-Vampire-2d-023.jpg?resize=640%2C625\" width=\"640\" height=\"625\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last Vampire by Duncan Long<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chinatown<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Rebecca T. Kaplan<\/p>\n<p>I found a store in Chinatown, full of exquisite pens. On one shelf I noticed a severed human finger. It was swollen, distended, obviously dead a while. I bought it, curious, and began writing. From it flowed another&#8217;s stories, confessions. It tells of murderous longings. Can&#8217;t put it down. My fingers ache. Help, please. Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nRebecca T. Kaplan is a freelance writer in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in The Vegetarian Journal, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Purchase Beat. She graduated from Purchase College in 2013 with a creative writing and journalism major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a store in Chinatown, full of exquisite pens. On one shelf I noticed a severed human finger. It was swollen, distended, obviously dead a while. I bought it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror-winner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}