{"id":287,"date":"2026-09-16T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:45:01","slug":"haunted-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/haunted-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"HAUNTED HOTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">\u201cPlay with me,\u201d she says, her laughter echoing. She leans back, halfway out the open window, cotton tendrils hanging from her pallid form. Her hand slips. Gone. A chill runs down my spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">I rush over to see. Press my hands against the window frame. <em>The tenth floor has the best view, until you look down.<\/em> &nbsp;Stomach reeling. Colors haze, bending cityscape. Steadying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Only bare bricks visible. Above me, tapping sounds. She\u2019s dancing on the rooftop. Circling around, along the edge, she falls. \u201cPlaaaaay.\u201d She grabs my arm. Spiraling. We shatter on sudden impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Her laughter echoes again from above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlay with me,\u201d she says, her laughter echoing. She leans back, halfway out the open window, cotton tendrils hanging from her pallid form. Her hand slips. Gone. A chill runs down my spine. I rush over to see. Press my hands against the window&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,11,24,8,17,16,12],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shorts","tag-drabble","tag-fiction","tag-flash","tag-horror","tag-micro","tag-paranormal","tag-speculative","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eviankeen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}