{"id":1098,"date":"2025-01-15T20:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:57:26","slug":"latibule-short-story-finalist-and-published-in-midway-journal-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/latibule-short-story-finalist-and-published-in-midway-journal-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Latibule&#8221; Short Story Finalist and Published in Midway Journal, January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=1024%2C623&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=1536%2C935&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=2048%2C1247&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?resize=1320%2C803&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Piero&#8217;s flash fiction story, <a href=\"https:\/\/midwayjournal.com\/latibule\/\">&#8220;Latibule,&#8221;<\/a> was a Finalist in Midway Journal&#8217;s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest and was published in their 2025 issue, vol. 19, issue 1. Inspired by T.C. Boyle&#8217;s classic story, &#8220;The Hit Man,&#8221; &#8220;Latibule&#8221;&#8211;named after the word for a small, hidden away place of comfort&#8211;follows a former adjunct professor of philosophy working from home in post-pandemic America as he goes about his daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy &#8220;Latibule&#8221; open access at <a href=\"https:\/\/midwayjournal.com\/latibule\/\">Midway Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piero&#8217;s flash fiction story, &#8220;Latibule,&#8221; was a Finalist in Midway Journal&#8217;s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest and was published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication-fiction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-3.17.15-PM.png?fit=2162%2C1316&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}