{"id":1681,"date":"2026-10-07T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:27:48","slug":"1681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"New Homes for Two Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>Headcanon Magazine<\/em> has picked up \u201c<strong>Hoofbeats on Ice<\/strong>,\u201d and <em>Altered Reality Magazine<\/em> has picked up \u201c<strong>The Master<\/strong>.\u201d I\u2019m grateful to both editorial teams for giving these stories a home.<\/p>\n<p>Both stories draw on jinn folklore and blend literary fiction, psychological unease, and the supernatural. At their core, they explore the inescapable cycles that bind the human and supernatural worlds\u2014patterns of obsession, memory, and guilt\u2014and the darkness that can exist at the edges of the familiar, where the unknown becomes not only a source of dread, but a possibility of another reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Drawing of ghoul by the very talented <strong>DP<\/strong>, created in the Zentangle tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoofbeats On Ice. The Master. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}