{"id":4274,"date":"2026-10-13T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:34:09","slug":"new-completed-short-story-getting-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"New Completed Short Story: \u201cGetting Lucky\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another new story has come out of my leaky pen today.<\/p>\n<p>I got a quick idea while I was browsing through some short fiction markets. An editor who held onto one of my stories for a while before passing and indicated they wanted to see my other work, and when I revisited their website, I thought of something I could write for them. And even better, it involves some characters I&#8217;ve been in love with for a while now. It has a tie-in to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=4182\">In Your Favor<\/a>.\u201d And it involves some aftermath of that story&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting Lucky\u201d is about 6,000 words of my character Amber, fresh from her final trials of adventurer school, heading home to tell her foster family how she&#8217;s transformed since her adventurer group received their magical talents. It&#8217;s sadder than I&#8217;d expected, considering Amber frequently brought the comic relief and a lot of goofiness in the original story. It explores what belonging (and not) is about for her, and how she&#8217;s feeling about her future with the adventuring team now that she&#8217;s had some time to settle in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll offer it around to some possible markets soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new story has come out of my leaky pen today. I got a quick idea while I was browsing through some short fiction markets. An editor who held onto one of my stories for a while before passing and indicated they wanted to see my other work, and when I revisited their website, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}