{"id":463,"date":"2012-12-28T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamincheah.wordpress.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-12-28T21:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:05:21","slug":"prelude-to-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up writing military science fiction and reading thrillers. Along the way, I twisted and turned and eventually ended up writing mystic thrillers. Thrillers that seek to explore the depths of the human soul and man&#8217;s relationship with the earth and divine. In 2012 I wrote the first batch of Michael Chang stories. Today, I have finished editing them all. In the coming weeks I&#8217;ll be publishing them as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t spoil the story for you, but at the end of the last Michael Chang story, Michael has to lay low for a long time. At the same time, I want to go back to my genre writing roots, and work on some military science fiction. In the past few weeks and months, I&#8217;ve been writing short fiction and sharpening my skills. As 2012 draws to a close, I&#8217;d like to share with you a story. It&#8217;s a taste of things to come in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>And the story is totally free.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Synopsis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The politicians said the world won the War on Terror. All it meant was that the war went underground, fought in shadows a hair&#8217;s breadth away from the public eye. The United States deploys a new breed of undercover soldier to fight this new war, armed with the latest in technology and tactics. One such soldier is sent to assassinate a terrorist banker. As new targets are identified and the body count rises, he must make decisions at the razor&#8217;s edge of necessity and morality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamincheah.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/28\/prelude-to-2013\/blowback\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-467\">Blowback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free military science fiction short story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[143,214,341],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-free-story","tag-mil-sci-fi","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}