{"id":113,"date":"2014-03-12T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-09-04T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T01:06:59","slug":"out-of-breath-by-terry-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Out of Breath by Terry White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"Out of Breath Stories by Terry White\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Terry White\u2019s newest work collects stories published within the past decade in various online and print journals. The stories range from personal reflections of growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio through fictionalized characters at various points of absurdity or crisis in their lives to pieces of flash fiction designed to capture a defining moment in a character\u2019s life.\u00a0 He gives us a range of finely wrought characters in situations both horrifying and enlightening.\u00a0 His courage to tackle the broader themes of the human condition is palpable.\u00a0 Praise for White&#8217;s other work includes this, by Richard H. A. Blum, <em>The Mexican Assassin <\/em>&amp; <em>Cornelius, Bishop of Antioch &#8220;<\/em>In <em>Haftmann\u2019s Rules<\/em>, it is more than a murdering novel . . . [It is] Dostoevsky on murderers\u2019 cell block.\u00a0 Most die, but that is God\u2019s solution, and he is incognito.\u00a0 The loneliness is so poignant, pervasive that the thump of bodies hitting the floor is its secondary sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry White\u2019s newest work collects stories published within the past decade in various online and print journals. The stories range from personal reflections of growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio through fictionalized characters at various points of absurdity or crisis in their lives to pieces of flash fiction designed to capture a defining moment in a character\u2019s life.\u00a0 He gives us a range of finely wrought characters in situations both horrifying and enlightening.\u00a0 His courage to tackle the broader themes of the human condition is palpable.\u00a0 Praise for White&#8217;s other work includes this, by Richard H. A. Blum, The Mexican Assassin &amp; Cornelius, Bishop of Antioch &#8220;In Haftmann\u2019s Rules, it is more than a murdering novel . . . [It is] Dostoevsky on murderers\u2019 cell block.\u00a0 Most die, but that is God\u2019s solution, and he is incognito.\u00a0 The loneliness is so poignant, pervasive that the thump of bodies hitting the floor is its secondary sound.&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/out-of-breath-REVISED.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}