{"id":4246,"date":"2017-03-06T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:36:35","slug":"new-release-hesitate-short-story-literary-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/new-release-hesitate-short-story-literary-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: Hesitate (short story, literary fiction)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Hesitate” is a literary fiction short story. It’s available from Kindle Unlimited<\/a> if you’ve got a subscription and want to read it for free. Otherwise it’s $0.99 and will be published as part of a short story collection sometime around June(?) if you want to wait.<\/p>\n

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At 2060 words, it’s a short social commentary piece.<\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: threat of noncon. character death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hesitate” is a literary fiction short story. It’s available from Kindle Unlimited if you’ve got a subscription and want to read it for free. Otherwise it’s $0.99 and will be published as part of a short story collection sometime around June(?) if you want to wait. At 2060 words, it’s a short social commentary piece.…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> New Release: Hesitate (short story, literary fiction)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62],"tags":[127,436,455,648],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-self-publishing","tag-amazon","tag-kindle-unlimted","tag-literary-fiction","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-16u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7127,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/short-fiction-a-once-spirited-teen\/","url_meta":{"origin":4246,"position":0},"title":"SHORT FICTION: A Once Spirited Teen","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A ONCE SPIRITED TEEN Ed loved her the first time he met her. 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