{"id":464,"date":"2022-04-13T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=464"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:27:37","slug":"slice-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/fiction\/slice-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Slice of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paden Wicks<\/span><\/h5>\n

Another night passes, and I stand at the kitchen counter, my arms holding up all my weight. My actions keep replaying in my head, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be able to atone for the sin that I have just committed.<\/p>\n

\u201cCam? What are you doing out here?\u201d<\/p>\n

I turn around to see my wife walking into the kitchen from the stairwell, her hair is up in a messy bun and she\u2019s wearing one of my old t-shirts from high school, she\u2019s still rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey babe, it\u2019s nothing. I\u2019m just thinking about some things.\u201d I say as I walk up to her and wrap her up in a hug.<\/p>\n

She pulls away and glares at me in a way that only she can, \u201c\u2019It\u2019s nothing? That\u2019s what you are going with? It\u2019s 3:00 am and you are brooding over the sink. Now are you gonna lie to me again? Or are we actually going to talk like adults?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the one wearing a shirt from my high school.\u201d I say to her, trying to change the subject.<\/p>\n

She rolls her eyes and playfully walks a circle around me, looking me up and down, her eyes more piercing than ever before.<\/p>\n

She stops right in front of my face, but I can\u2019t meet her eyes. \u201cLook at me.\u201d I try to turn away, but she grabs me by the face, \u201cYou son of a bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

She turns towards the fridge and throws open the door. While she\u2019s distracted by that I sprint up the stairs and hear a faint \u201cOh my gosh!\u201d. Not long after that I hear the loud, clomping footsteps of my upset wife trailing me up the stairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cCameron Mitchell!\u201c I hear her yell. By this time, I\u2019ve made it to the bedroom, but am pinned between the wall and her, the bed being the only buffer between us.<\/p>\n

\u201cBabe! Listen, I\u2019ll buy some more! I promise!\u201d I cry out through a laugh as she runs towards me. I jump over the bed and run back down the stairs. I think that she\u2019ll give chase, but then I hear the bedroom door slam shut.<\/p>\n

I walk into the kitchen and turn off the lights that my wife so rudely left on earlier. I walk into the living room, grab a blanket off the chair and lie down on the couch. As I begin to drift to sleep, I can\u2019t help but think about that damn last slice of pie that got me kicked onto the couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paden Wicks Another night passes, and I stand at the kitchen counter, my arms holding up all my weight. My actions keep replaying in my head, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be able to atone for the sin that I have just committed. \u201cCam? What are you doing out here?\u201d I turn around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}