{"id":5913,"date":"2022-04-29T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:46:35","slug":"the-plot-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/the-plot-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plot of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fleasonthedog.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-29-at-4.28.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Sometimes, when I take a break from a novel to write a short story, I end up with a piece that is unlike anything else I\u2019ve ever known. Such is the case with <a href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/9a0949f4-1d2a-4a7c-b9fb-a96b9b6bd861\/downloads\/F_11%20_Plot%20of%20Lies_%20by%20Caragh%20M.%20O_Brien%20(Meta.pdf?ver=1651025452016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Plot of Lies,\u201d<\/a> a story about writing stories, also known as metafiction. To my delight, the story was picked up by the quirky Canadian online magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/fleasonthedog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fleas on the Dog<\/em><\/a>, which is the perfect home for it. Issue 11 is up now, and free, for anyone who wants to pop by and <a href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/9a0949f4-1d2a-4a7c-b9fb-a96b9b6bd861\/downloads\/F_11%20_Plot%20of%20Lies_%20by%20Caragh%20M.%20O_Brien%20(Meta.pdf?ver=1651025452016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My story begins with a voice: \u201cMaybe this is the novel. Maybe I just started it. Maybe I\u2019m the girl and this is the day. It\u2019s either the most brilliant or moronic idea I\u2019ve ever had. I will never show this to anyone. That already sounds like a promise I\u2019m doomed to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that my fellow creatives will get what I\u2019m trying to do. May we all be bold and weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when I take a break from a novel to write a short story, I end up with a piece that is unlike anything else I\u2019ve ever known. Such is the case with \u201cThe Plot of Lies,\u201d a story about writing stories, also known as metafiction. To my delight, the story was picked up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1113,63,1112,1114,1115],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-fleas-on-the-dog","tag-ha","tag-metafiction","tag-plot-of-lies","tag-short-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}