{"id":34248,"date":"2023-08-23T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=34248"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:31:40","slug":"the-letters-they-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-letters-they-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Letters They Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love stories told in the epistolary form, though unlike my 2009 story &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-world-breaks\/\">The World Breaks<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;The Letters They Left Behind&#8221; isn&#8217;t <em>entirely<\/em> epistolary.<\/p>\n<p>To explain, here&#8217;s the beginning of what I scribbled in my journal the day the idea for this one came to me &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA story told in the form of letters written by a parent to a child, to be read at important moments in the kid\u2019s life after Mom or Dad is gone.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll share  nothing else of what I wrote that day, because it would be a spoiler, and if you know me, you know I hate spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read what I did with that  idea, you can  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/the-letters-they-left-behind\/\">check out<\/a>  &#8220;The Letters They Left Behind&#8221; in the August 2023 issue of <em>Lightspeed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love stories told in the epistolary form, though unlike my 2009 story &#8220;The World Breaks,&#8221; &#8220;The Letters They Left Behind&#8221; isn&#8217;t entirely epistolary. To explain, here&#8217;s the beginning of what I scribbled in my journal the day the idea for this one came to me &#8212; \u201cA story told in the form of letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34249,"parent":13,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34248","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34248","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=34248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34273,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34248\/revisions\/34273"}],"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\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}