It is said that time heals all wounds, but I don’t think it does, not really. What time seems to do instead, for me at least, is erase the emotional memories of those wounds. And so I have mixed feelings looking back at the publication of this story about a man who moves into an apartment building only to come to believe that he can hear his parents living a floor above and decades in the past.<\/p>\n
That’s because “Apartment 6-D” was split in half and run in two consecutive issues of Nightshade<\/em>. You’d think that the events of 1992 wouldn’t seem so far away … but they do. And so I can no longer remember whether or not I was upset by the story being bisected, or just happy to finally see it in print. I can’t even blame this on the editor, because I can no longer remember whether or not he got my permission first.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I am sure that there are readers walking around out there who only read one half of the story and wondered, what the heck was that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is said that time heals all wounds, but I don’t think it does, not really. What time seems to do instead, for me at least, is erase the emotional memories of those wounds. And so I have mixed feelings looking back at the publication of this story about a man who moves into an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303,"parent":13,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/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\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}