Looming, by Meghan Bleck<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It lurks in the shadows
It disturbs all my peace
It strangles me with silence
It torments like a beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sounds it makes both trouble and startle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hitching my breath, was that a gurgle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did it come from the closet? Is it in my mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
QUICK! I think I\u2019m running out of time\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can feel it approaching,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look over my shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Empty space\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026but\u2026 did it just get colder?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m starting to sweat,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should just give in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t like this feeling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can\u2019t let fear win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No matter the month, this creature is there<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I try to deflect, but it only causes more despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would serve me well to remember the earnest key,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the creeping deadline is regretfully upon me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We would like to congratulate Meghan Bleck for her winning poem, as part of our Spooktacular Flash Fiction contest! Looming, by Meghan Bleck It lurks in the shadowsIt disturbs all my peaceIt strangles me with silenceIt torments like a beast. The sounds it makes both trouble and startle Hitching my breath, was that a gurgle? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253175,23,245381,41],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest","tag-flash-fiction","tag-poetry","tag-writing-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}