{"id":8651,"date":"2023-01-31T23:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8651"},"modified":"2023-02-01T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:03:09","slug":"waterloo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8651","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nikki Williams<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He swaggered along the lip of the pool\u2014she held her breath, knew what came next.\u00a0<br>The noise that could destroy daylight, could shake you awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walls watch her clear the breakfast things, never her thoughts. Her hopes hang like ghost-grey fog. Seasons cycle on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She sits alone under berried limbs, her bare legs blanketed by blackness, the crickets\u2019 ceaseless song spilling into dusk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, footsteps on gravel. One turn too many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudden flurry of movement, black flash against the black night. Her red eyes swallow the perfect sluice of white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His voice booms\u2014unclear, unintelligible. Words that no longer matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NIKKI WILLIAMS<\/strong>\u00a0is a copywriter and music critic. Her work appears in\u00a0<em>The Citron Review, Ellipsiszine, Sublunary Review, LEON Literary Review, Sky Island Journal, Literary Yard, PreeLit, Nymphs<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>New Pop Lit<\/em>. She munches trail mix and takes stunning photos when not busy writing. She tweets: @ohsashalee \/ See more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/linktr.ee\/writenowrong\">linktr.ee\/writenowrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Williams He swaggered along the lip of the pool\u2014she held her breath, knew what came next.\u00a0The noise that could destroy daylight, could shake you awake. The walls watch her clear the breakfast things, never her thoughts. Her hopes hang &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8659,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2fx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8651\/revisions\/8663"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}