{"id":112,"date":"2025-01-07T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:30:53","slug":"the-heartbreakers-apprentice-out-now-at-flash-fiction-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Heartbreaker&#8217;s Apprentice&#8221; out now at Flash Fiction Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My flash story &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashfictiononline.com\/article\/the-heartbreakers-apprentice\/\">The Heartbreaker&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a>&#8221; is out today at Flash Fiction Online! This story is loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s &#8220;The Snow Queen&#8221; and involves a bittersweet love story and a young woman who is trying to learn the craft of breaking hearts. I was very excited when FFO took it for their Winter Folklore issue because that&#8217;s such an exact description of the vibe of this story; it&#8217;s told by a chorus of the nameless residents of an unnamed city (in earlier drafts it was obvious that the city was Ottawa, but sometimes those things go by the wayside in bring a story down to flash length), and it involves some very icy magic powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another story I started writing back in 2019 but couldn&#8217;t figure out how to finish. I had put it in the &#8220;trunk&#8221; file (for stories that I was no longer intending to complete), but early in 2024 I took it out, read it over, and thought &#8220;if I could figure out the ending there would be something here.&#8221; For a bit it transformed into a poem, and then back into a story, and today I&#8217;m happy to share it all with you in its final form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My flash story &#8220;The Heartbreaker&#8217;s Apprentice&#8221; is out today at Flash Fiction Online! This story is loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s &#8220;The Snow Queen&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgfiction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}