{"id":2911,"date":"2026-03-22T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:39:28","slug":"false-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/false-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"False Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\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\">A flash of light invades my closed eyelids, rudely wrenching me awake from my dreams. I prop up on my elbows and rub the sleep from my eyes. Morning already?&nbsp;<\/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\">The clock on the nightstand says 2:47 AM. That can\u2019t be right; the sun\u2019s already up. Maybe the power went out? Bright rays pierce the closed blinds, stinging my eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\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\">I peek through the slats, and my breath catches. There\u2019s a sun on the horizon, but not the normal yellow one. It\u2019s a roiling red ball of fire, a man-made sun, rising with black anger into a mushroom cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 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-5 wp-block-paragraph\">Note: Micro-fiction, 100-words exactly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flash of light invades my closed eyelids, rudely wrenching me awake from my dreams. I prop up on my elbows and rub the sleep from my eyes. Morning already?&nbsp; The clock on the nightstand says 2:47 AM. That can\u2019t be right; the sun\u2019s already up. Maybe the power went out? Bright rays pierce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2912,"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":[21,23],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-science-fiction","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\/2026\/03\/False_Dawn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}