{"id":219,"date":"2017-05-10T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/?p=219"},"modified":"2017-05-10T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:10:10","slug":"3rd-place-in-flash500-short-story-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"3rd place in Flash500 Short Story competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After long listing last year, this year, my story\u00a0<em>In the orbit of Pluto<\/em> won third place in the annual Short Story competition. Here&#8217;s the comments of judge Sheila Burgher<\/p>\n<p>Another terrifying and truly shocking story, I was literally gripping the sides of my chair while I read this and willing this story to end differently to the way it did. Set in contemporary Dublin, the story focuses on a gangland killing and the terrible consequences of that act. From the outset, I knew this one wasn\u2019t going to end well but I kept hoping I was wrong. Despite this, the ending truly did shock me and I salute whoever wrote this brilliantly crafted story. Rich in the Dublin dialect, the tragic lives revealed in this story lingered long after I\u2019d finished.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story plus the winner here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flash500.com\/index_files\/ssr17.htm\">http:\/\/www.flash500.com\/index_files\/ssr17.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After long listing last year, this year, my story\u00a0In the orbit of Pluto won third place in the annual Short Story competition. Here&#8217;s the comments of judge Sheila Burgher Another terrifying and truly shocking story, I was literally gripping the sides of my chair while I read this and willing this story to end differently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phjJjS-3x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-20.05.29.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}