{"id":148,"date":"2012-09-21T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:38:11","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/robert-nathan\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Robert Nathan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/Robert-Nathan-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Robert Nathan\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/robert-nathan\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Robert Nathan\">Writings \/ Fiction: Robert Nathan<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Welcome \r\n\u201cWatch your ass.\u201d\r\nMy sister Meena laughed, but Aunt Radhika was serious.\r\n\u201cPrepare yourself. It\u2019s what they all want sooner or later.\u201d She offered this warning while turning rotis on the stove, thrusting her leathered fingers into the pan a...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/john-tavares\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: John Tavares\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/John-Tavares-pic-e1369890201555-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: John Tavares\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/john-tavares\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: John Tavares\">Writings \/ Fiction: John Tavares<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Candy Apple-Red Corvette \r\nDurke was not very well liked by Vincent, his coworker, who bought tickets for the lottery pool in the auto parts factory. Durke commuted with Vincent to work, in an industrial park near the frenetically busy expressway. Durke...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/claudia-del-balso\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Claudia Del Balso\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/Claudia-Del-balso-new-pic-copy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Claudia Del Balso\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/fiction\/claudia-del-balso\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Claudia Del Balso\">Writings \/ Fiction: Claudia Del Balso<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Whispers \r\nToday Dr. Weiss brings Celia to where it all started: the church she had defaced a week earlier. Unlike that turbulent day, her thoughts are in sequence like rosary beads\u2026 or so he presumes. As she stands in the garden a few feet away from t...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1260,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/1335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}