Don’t ask me why, but I decided to write about a monster hunter today?<\/p>\n
I got an idea for a concept I just wanted to crank out, and less than an hour later, a new flash fiction piece had come into being. I decided to title it \u201cThe Juicy Ones,\u201d weighing in at about 900 words.<\/p>\n
Very short fiction is not my thing, as anyone who knows me is well aware. So it’s always exciting when something very short and sweet comes to me, giving me a crack at opportunities to sell short fiction that I usually don’t have. Well, I guess I shouldn’t say it’s short and\u00a0sweet<\/em>, because it’s very much not a sweet story.<\/p>\n Dina is a monster hunter and she has her own reasons for not wanting to fight particularly juicy monsters. Her boss doesn’t care to accommodate her. One day after being sent after a juicy one and coming back covered in monster guts, she has it out with her boss and then reflects in a private moment.<\/p>\n That’s it. Ya know, after writing multiple adventurer stories where no one goes on an adventure (on the page) and then writing a monster-hunter story where nobody fights a monster (on the page), I’m starting to think I’m doing it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t ask me why, but I decided to write about a monster hunter today? I got an idea for a concept I just wanted to crank out, and less than an hour later, a new flash fiction piece had come into being. I decided to title it \u201cThe Juicy Ones,\u201d weighing in at about 900 […]<\/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-4329","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\/4329","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=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}