{"id":6254,"date":"2021-07-03T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2021-07-03T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T17:12:59","slug":"tale-of-the-apocalyptic-hell-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/tale-of-the-apocalyptic-hell-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of the Apocalyptic Hell World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fiction was the subject of a hilarious (and solidly accurate) twitter thread over at the Midnight Society today:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lucy Snyder: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the Tale of the Apocalyptic hell world<br \/>\nKing: oh what kind of apocalypse?<br \/>\nSnyder: all of them<br \/>\nSnyder: all of them at once<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/midnight_pals\/status\/1411336181594300417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/tale-of-the-apocalyptic-hell-world\/midnightsociey1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1428,1760\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MidnightSociey1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Midnight Sociey screen cap &amp;#8211; 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visit the Twitter link above for text&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-843x1024.png\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-843x1024.png\" alt=\"Midnight Sociey screen cap - visit the Twitter link above for text\" width=\"843\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-843x1024.png 843w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2-1265x1536.png 1265w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey2.png 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6259\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/tale-of-the-apocalyptic-hell-world\/midnightsociey3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3.png\" data-orig-size=\"1428,1420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MidnightSociey3\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Midnight Sociey screen cap &amp;#8211; visit the Twitter link above for text&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-1024x1018.png\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-1024x1018.png\" alt=\"Midnight Sociey screen cap - visit the Twitter link above for text\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-1024x1018.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3-768x764.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MidnightSociey3.png 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My fiction was the subject of a hilarious (and solidly accurate) twitter thread over at the Midnight Society today: Lucy Snyder: Submitted for the approval <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/tale-of-the-apocalyptic-hell-world\/\" title=\"Tale of the Apocalyptic Hell World\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,60,35,23],"tags":[139,9,187],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-genre","category-horror","category-humor","tag-cosmic-horror","tag-horror","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/midnightpals.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-1CS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7763,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/sister-maiden-monster-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":6254,"position":0},"title":"Sister, Maiden, Monster News","author":"Lucy A. 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