{"id":469,"date":"2011-02-14T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:39:22","slug":"what-will-come-after","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/what-will-come-after\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Come After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Pete Crowther over at PS Publishing agreed to collect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/what-will-come-after\/\">my complete zombie stories to date<\/a> in a single volume, all he asked was that I provide him with an original for the book so that all those Edelman completists out there would need to buy it. So I wrote the short story &#8220;What Will Come After,&#8221; which ended up also providing the title for the collection itself.<\/p>\n<p>I felt I needed to push the envelope with this one, and so wrote the most personal zombie story I could imagine (well, the most personal story, period), one which looked ahead to what would occur after <em>I<\/em> died &#8230; and returned as one of the walking dead. <\/p>\n<p>Not only am I in the story, but so is my wife, my parents, my son &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given readings of this story at conventions and have never managed to get through it without choking up. As time goes by, I think its affect on me will only get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pete Crowther over at PS Publishing agreed to collect my complete zombie stories to date in a single volume, all he asked was that I provide him with an original for the book so that all those Edelman completists out there would need to buy it. So I wrote the short story &#8220;What Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"parent":13,"menu_order":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-469","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/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\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}