{"id":105,"date":"2016-09-24T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=105"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:51:49","slug":"50-words-on-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"50 words on phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone.jpg\" alt=\"phone\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Phone-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>The Scottish Book Trust run a monthly contest to write a 50 word story on a given theme. Last month, it was mobile phones, and a few of our members decided to give it a try. Here are our attempts.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>My Waterloo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The visiting dignitaries glared. There\u2019s a suppressed smile from Sweden at the vibrating roar of \u2018Waterloo\u2019. The contents of my bag rattled onto the glass table; a stray lipstick came to rest against the glass of Russia\u2019s ambassador. I snatched up the handset, the reminder read \u201cswitch phone to silent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Susan Proctor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDa da?\u201d<br \/>\nShe pulls herself up.<br \/>\n[Bleep bleep]<br \/>\n\u201cIn a minute darlin\u2019,\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDa da?\u201d<br \/>\nShe steadies herself.<br \/>\n\u201cI just need to check this, I\u2019ll be two seconds\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDa da?\u201d<br \/>\nShe takes a tiny step, and then another and another, before landing in a heap.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat you doing down there darlin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Rosie Baillie<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Modern Author\u2019s Lament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are stranded on a remote island.<br \/>\nBeen done.<br \/>\nThe battery is dead.<br \/>\nToo obvious.<br \/>\nShe drops it down the toilet while she\u2019s checking Twitter.<br \/>\nToo contrived.<br \/>\nOkay, I give up. How can I stop every plot twist being foiled by \u2018The hero checks it up on her mobile phone?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Craig Mudie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Book Trust run a monthly contest to write a 50 word story on a given theme. Last month, it was mobile phones, and a few of our members decided to give it a try. Here are our attempts. My Waterloo The visiting dignitaries glared. There\u2019s a suppressed smile from Sweden at the vibrating&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=105\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50 words on phones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}