{"id":22643,"date":"2020-05-04T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=22643"},"modified":"2020-05-04T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:18:52","slug":"microfiction-practice-4-the-erasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/microfiction-practice-4-the-erasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Microfiction Practice #4: The Erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"smalltext highlight\"><em>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/working-in-the-small\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> for some background.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompt #312:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Genre: drama<\/li><li>Word: <em>superficial<\/em><\/li><li>Action: mopping the floor<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story<\/strong> <em>(99 words, per Microsoft Word)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The housekeeper, Mrs. Parker, obsessively ran a mop over the same foot-wide tile of the ward\u2019s cafeteria floor: over, and over, and over. That mirrored spot gleamed with a sheen of strange, focused intimacy. Someone would have to stop her soon: visiting hours began at 2:00. Residents\u2019 families wouldn\u2019t object to a floor even only superficially clean &#8212; but they&#8217;d complain about Mrs. Parker\u2019s mophead: dry, filthy, a handful of filthy socks. The spot recalled a face: a curve of gray-brown hair across the forehead, a blurry swoop of silver mustache, a teasing smile. <\/p><p>Mr. Parker had passed overnight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See this post for some background.] Prompt #312: Genre: drama Word: superficial Action: mopping the floor Story (99 words, per Microsoft Word): The housekeeper, Mrs. Parker, obsessively ran a mop over the same foot-wide tile of the ward\u2019s cafeteria floor: over, and over, and over. That mirrored spot gleamed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,5128,4878,105,372],"tags":[298,383,4752],"class_list":{"0":"post-22643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-06_writing","7":"category-flash-and-microfiction","8":"category-fiction","9":"category-short-fiction","10":"category-style-and-craft","11":"tag-writing-exercises","12":"tag-drama","13":"tag-nyc-midnight","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-5Td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22650,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643\/revisions\/22650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}