{"id":249,"date":"2011-02-13T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:49:21","slug":"choosing-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/choosing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer of 1988, I published a strange little short story titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/buffalo\/\">&#8220;Buffalo&#8221;<\/a> in Ice River magazine, a journal of slipstream fiction published by David Memmott. Who knew then that this would, years later, make me eligible to appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbr-online.com\/catalogue\/Items\/AngelBody.shtml\"><em>Angel Body and other Magic for the Soul<\/em><\/a>, a commemorative trade paperback published in celebration of Memmott&#8217;s press, Wordcraft of Oregon?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Reed, publisher of <em>Back Brain Recluse<\/em>, worked with Memmott to assemble the trade paperback anthology <em>Angel Body<\/em>, featuring stories from writers such as Bruce Boston, Ernest Hogan, Mark Rich&#8212;and me.<\/p>\n<p>My story in the volume, &#8220;Choosing Time,&#8221; is a time-travel story with an odd twist, one in which the reader has as almost many choices as the lead character. But as for what those choices might be, I&#8217;ll let readers discover in the story itself, rather than here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Choosing Time&#8221; was reprinted in my SF collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/what-we-still-talk-about\/\"><em>What We Still Talk About<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer of 1988, I published a strange little short story titled &#8220;Buffalo&#8221; in Ice River magazine, a journal of slipstream fiction published by David Memmott. Who knew then that this would, years later, make me eligible to appear in Angel Body and other Magic for the Soul, a commemorative trade paperback published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250,"parent":13,"menu_order":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-249","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}