{"id":28656,"date":"2017-03-07T05:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28656"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:48:00","slug":"microsff-monsters-under-the-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28656","title":{"rendered":"MicroSFF: Monsters Under the Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The @MicroSFF Twitter feed is a trove of wonderful, tiny stories.<\/p>\n<p>The author recently said that he was thinking about this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Dad, there&#39;s a monster under my bed.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Yes, I know. That&#39;s why I&#39;ve trained you. Here, your sword.&quot;<br \/>&quot;But-&quot;<br \/>&quot;Be bold, my girl! Save us all!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/555027611962052608\">January 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and followed up with this marvelous thread:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Um,&quot; she said, feeling very silly. &quot;Still there?&quot;<br \/>&quot;Yes,&quot; the monsters under the bed hissed.<br \/>&quot;I&#39;m moving, to uni. Um. Will you come?&quot;<br \/>&quot;Yes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/836550036825718788\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Where is he?!&quot;<br \/>&quot;Eaten.&quot;<br \/>&quot;You ate him?&quot;<br \/>&quot;We are monsters under the bed. We are your greatest fear.&quot;<br \/>&quot;I don&#39;t fear you.&quot;<br \/>&quot;You feared him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/836550573210103808\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;My son has monsters under his bed.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Yes.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Can you&#8230; chase them away?&quot;<br \/>&quot;Let him fight, like you fought us.&quot;<br \/>&quot;He can&#39;t.&quot;<br \/>&quot;You can teach.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/836550957039300608\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Monsters,&quot; she whispered, &quot;are you still there?&quot;<br \/>&quot;Yes.&quot; A whisper from under her hospital bed.<br \/>&quot;I fear death.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Join us?&quot;<br \/>She slipped away.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/836551316394622977\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, and not-coincidentally, right after the U.S. election, the account tweeted these gems:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Child?&quot; The wet, gravelly voices came from under the bed.<br \/>&quot;Yes?&quot;<br \/>&quot;We watch your world, and we fear.&quot;<br \/>&quot;I&#39;ll call for dad.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Thank you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/826740246419271680\">February 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Child?&quot; The wet, gravelly voices came from under the bed.<br \/>&quot;Yes?&quot;<br \/>&quot;If you and your parents need refuge, we will welcome you.&quot;<br \/>&quot;Thank you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroSFF\/status\/826749206446628864\">February 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>queenofthedorks liked that one so much that she <a href=\"http:\/\/microsff.tumblr.com\/post\/156708830885\/queenofthedorks-i-loved-this-tweet-so-much-i-had\">illustrated it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m saying is that @MicroSFF does monsters-under-the-bed right and you should totally follow them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The @MicroSFF Twitter feed is a trove of wonderful, tiny stories. The author recently said that he was thinking about this tweet: &quot;Dad, there&#39;s a monster under my bed.&quot;&quot;Yes, I know. That&#39;s why I&#39;ve trained you. Here, your sword.&quot;&quot;But-&quot;&quot;Be bold, my girl! Save us all!&quot; &mdash; Micro SF\/F stories (@MicroSFF) January 13, 2015 &#8230;and followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28690,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions\/28690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}