{"id":14771,"date":"2023-02-07T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2023-02-27T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T21:19:40","slug":"not-today-short-fiction-release-darkrecesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/not-today-short-fiction-release-darkrecesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Today! Short Fiction Release @DarkRecesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invading aliens with advanced technology may make us obsolete, but not all of us want to be, and not all of us will succumb as easily to hopelessness as others\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dark-Recesses-Press-Vol7-Issue18-Zena-Shapter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dark-Recesses-Press-Vol7-Issue18-Zena-Shapter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14772\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dark-Recesses-Press-Vol7-Issue18-Zena-Shapter.jpg 183w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dark-Recesses-Press-Vol7-Issue18-Zena-Shapter-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My short story &#8216;Not Today&#8217; is kicking off my 2023 publications with this horrifying short story of control and despair. It&#8217;s out now in Dark Recesses Press Vol 7 \u2013 Issue 18, with this equally horrifying cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the opening lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>We\u2019re kept in what used to be a zoo. The larger enclosures are filled with transportation cages; medium pens are divided with taut wire fencing soldered into cells. Metal panel roofs shut out the daylight, and shut in the sweat-seeped stench of unwashed bodies.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dark Recesses Press is a magazine of horror &amp; dark fiction, non-fiction and art. In this issue, the editors offer up a fine array of works to tweak your mind, break your heart, and leave a shiver down your spine. Non-fiction offerings include book and movie reviews, plus interviews with Dacre Stoker (the great-grandnephew of &#8216;Dracula&#8217; author Bram Stoker) and bestselling author John Urbancik. Plus, this issue comes with an optional free digital copy! Read my story and more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/darkrecessespress.com\/product\/dark-recesses-press-vol-7-issue-18\/\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zena Shapter \u2013 Not Today \u2013 Dark Recesses Press #horrorstories #shorts #sciencefiction\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dVRzR9NLIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invading aliens with advanced technology may make us obsolete, but not all of us want to be, and not all of us will succumb as easily to hopelessness as others\u2026 My short story &#8216;Not Today&#8217; is kicking off my 2023 publications with this horrifying short story of control and despair.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/not-today-short-fiction-release-darkrecesses\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,2470,893,270,567],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-news","tag-aliens","tag-dark-recesses-press","tag-free","tag-horror","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dark-Recesses-Press-Vol7-Issue18-Zena-Shapter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14815,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/14815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}