{"id":26697,"date":"2020-03-02T11:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=26697"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:53:07","slug":"only-bruises-are-permanent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/only-bruises-are-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Bruises Are Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;Only Bruises Are Permanent&#8221; appeared in the anthology <em>Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &#038; Other Horrors<\/em>, published February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely pleased the piece was accepted by editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, because it meant I joined the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2018\/04\/04\/polish-off-portuguese-in-providence-with-victor-lavalle-on-episode-63-of-eating-the-fantastic\/\">Victor LaValle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2019\/05\/14\/dare-to-eat-donuts-with-a-dozen-horrific-creators-during-the-stokercon-donut-spooktacular\/\">Josh Malerman<\/a>, Theodora Goss, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2019\/10\/31\/ramsey-campbell\/\">Ramsey Campbell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2016\/06\/22\/eavesdrop-on-my-lunch-with-linda-addison-in-episode-11-of-eating-the-fantastic\/\">Linda Addison<\/a>, and many other writers I love. When talking about the book, I&#8217;ve even been joking that I&#8217;m the only writer I&#8217;ve never heard of!<\/p>\n<p>One of the first reviews for <em>Miscreations<\/em> said &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-miscreations-murano-bailey\/\">this story stuck around in my mind long after I read it<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; and I hope you end up feeling the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;Only Bruises Are Permanent&#8221; appeared in the anthology Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &#038; Other Horrors, published February 2020. I&#8217;m extremely pleased the piece was accepted by editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, because it meant I joined the likes of Victor LaValle, Josh Malerman, Theodora Goss, Ramsey Campbell, Linda Addison, and many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26698,"parent":13,"menu_order":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26697","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26697","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=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26703,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26697\/revisions\/26703"}],"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\/26698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}