{"id":2686,"date":"2025-11-13T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:20:24","slug":"the-edge-of-the-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/the-edge-of-the-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edge Of The Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">She snuggles close to me as we sit on the edge of the cliff, our legs swinging freely above the raging surf and jagged rocks below. Do it now, I think\u2014a slip, a fall, a tragic accident, I\u2019ll say\u2014and soon, the $500,000 life insurance benefit will be mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">She kisses me. \u201cI love you,\u201d she says, \u201cand I\u2019m sorry.\u201d She pushes and I fall, my limbs flailing helplessly in the air. I knew I should have cancelled the million-dollar policy on my life, ever since I saw the photo of her with my best friend in bed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">100-word microfiction, a drabble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She snuggles close to me as we sit on the edge of the cliff, our legs swinging freely above the raging surf and jagged rocks below. Do it now, I think\u2014a slip, a fall, a tragic accident, I\u2019ll say\u2014and soon, the $500,000 life insurance benefit will be mine.\u00a0 She kisses me. \u201cI love you,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mystery-suspense","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Edge-of-the-Cliff.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}