{"id":8811,"date":"2021-08-24T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:15:21","slug":"my-story-rodney-chelsea-reprinted-at-fractured-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8811","title":{"rendered":"My Story, “Rodney & Chelsea,” Reprinted at Fractured Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many thanks to Tommy Dean and staff at Fractured Literary<\/em> for reprinting my 2014 story, “Rodney & Chelsea.” This fragmented piece was originally published in Frederick Barthelme’s Blip Magazine<\/em>, an early iteration of New World Writing<\/em>. See below for an excerpt (you may read the whole story HERE<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chelsea\u2019s mom believes that life is a celebration and that people should live in the Now. Chelsea has an older brother named Royal. Nobody knows where the hell he is. He ran away from the halfway house downtown, the place Chelsea\u2019s mom said was his best chance and hope. He has a behavior disorder which involves beating people up. He doesn\u2019t know his own strength is what Chelsea\u2019s mom says. He has a bear spirit. He is unruinable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Tommy Dean and staff at Fractured Literary for reprinting my 2014 story, “Rodney & Chelsea.” This fragmented piece was originally published in Frederick Barthelme’s Blip Magazine, an early iteration of New World Writing. See below for an excerpt (you may read the whole story HERE): Chelsea\u2019s mom believes that life is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1149,328,1148,370,726,1150,1034],"class_list":["post-8811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-publications","tag-blip-magazine","tag-families","tag-fractured-literary","tag-frederick-barthelme","tag-new-world-writing","tag-segmented-flash","tag-tommy-dean"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}