{"id":1073,"date":"2016-01-06T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:44:50","slug":"future-never-lasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Available Now! The Future Never Lasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Print and electronic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Never-Lasts-Phillip-Gardner-ebook\/dp\/B01CLT7GZO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Producte\/9781938463242\/the-future-never-lasts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Print at SPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collection of short stories that are a finger on the pulse of our individual and collective secrets, exploring the cost of hiding them or trying to share them. Some, like the protagonists in \u201cIt\u2019s Usually This Dark By Now\u201d and \u201cA Crime of Opportunity,\u201d can\u2019t afford the price tag on those secrets. Others, like the history-haunted veteran in \u201cThis Time Comes From That Time\u201d or the teenage narrator in \u201cMountain,\u201d swallow them whole. A few, like the husband and wife in \u201cAugmented Finality\u201d and the three couples in \u201cTen Things You Don\u2019t Know About Me,\u201d make uneasy peace with those secrets. Rich characters and a literary style make this a go-to for lovers of short fiction.<\/p>\n<p>About the author<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Gardner is a three-time South Carolina Fiction Project winner and a Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open winner. His stories have appeared in the North American Review, New Delta Review, LIT, Interim, The Chattahoochee Review, and other journals. His stories have been anthologized in Inheritance: Selections from The South Carolina Fiction Project (Hub City Writers Project) and A Shared Voice (Lamar University Press). He is the author of three short story collections: Someone To Crawl Back To, Somebody Wants Somebody Dead, and Available Light (Boson Books). He teaches at Francis Marion University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print and electronic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Never-Lasts-Phillip-Gardner-ebook\/dp\/B01CLT7GZO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Producte\/9781938463242\/the-future-never-lasts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Print at SPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collection of short stories that are a finger on the pulse of our individual and collective secrets, exploring the cost of hiding them or trying to share them. Some, like the protagonists in \u201cIt\u2019s Usually This Dark By [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}