{"id":2700,"date":"2014-10-15T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:21:34","slug":"billys-room-dana-schellings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/billys-room-dana-schellings\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy\u2019s Room by Dana Schellings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe (1919)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Billy\u2019s Room<\/h1>\n

by Dana Schellings<\/p>\n

\u201cGood night, Billy. Sweet dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy, wait! Could you check for monsters under my bed?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, kiddo. I\u2019ll just kneel down and pull up the covers\u2026nope, no monstAAAAHHH!!!<\/p>\n

AAAaaargurllphprppaaauuuhhh\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Daddy can\u2019t hear you, Billy. Not anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNope. He\u2019s gone and he\u2019s never coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, so where is it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere\u2019s what?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dirt bike. You promised me a dirt bike! Where is it!?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh right. Um\u2026well\u2026say, how are you fixed for video games?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard you fighting with your mom the other day. You want the new game console all your friends have but she won\u2019t buy it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, so?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo bring her to me and I\u2019ll give you the dirt bike AND the game console.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPromise?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPromise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMOOOOM!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nDana Schellings is a freelance writer, avid swimmer, and slayer of bad grammar. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you email her at danaschellings@gmail.com, maybe you can hire…her. You can also follow her on Twitter at DanaSan@DanaSan88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGood night, Billy. Sweet dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy, wait! Could you check for monsters under my bed?\u201d<\/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":[88,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-scary-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","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=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}