{"id":16945,"date":"2024-06-20T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:49:57","slug":"the-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/06\/20\/the-wasteland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>The Wasteland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Prosper\u00a0C. \u00ccf\u00e9\u00e1ny\u00ed<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens in-between is left to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prosper&nbsp;C. \u00ccf\u00e9\u00e1ny\u00ed<\/strong> writes from Lagos, Nigeria. His works are featured or forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Black Warrior<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Review, New Delta Review, The Offing, South Dakota Review<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about submitting your work to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;or applying to McNeese State University\u2019s Creative Writing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wasteland Prosper\u00a0C. \u00ccf\u00e9\u00e1ny\u00ed __________ And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens in-between is left to us.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[75,209],"class_list":["post-16945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-sentence-stories","tag-boudin","tag-onesentencestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17068,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions\/17068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}