{"id":2955,"date":"2014-06-26T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2014-06-26T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:08:04","slug":"altered-words-these-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/altered-words-these-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Words &#8211; These Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altered Words is my take on &#8220;found fiction&#8221;, where I take a story, poem, or other literary work and try to &#8220;find&#8221; a story within by simply crossing out the words I do not want to include in my piece.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a few of these little experimental pieces <a href=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog?s=altered+words\">on my blog<\/a> over the past few years and I always have a great time trying to discover something different in the prose I&#8217;ve chosen to work from. It&#8217;s actually kind of cool, kind of like finding the hidden meaning or an underlying message that the author tried to bury within.<\/p>\n<p>This one was originally posted on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/maryrajotte\">Patreon campaign<\/a> in May but now you can read it here! I hope you enjoy them and I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts (or if you happen to have a copy of the same book, I&#8217;d LOVE to see what &#8220;hidden&#8221; prose you find! be sure to share it in the comments if you do!<\/p>\n<p>So, without further adieu, please enjoy this Altered Words piece!<\/p>\n<p>==============================================<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2956\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/altered-words-these-dead\/soundtrack_altered\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/soundtrack_altered.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" 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=\"soundtrack_altered\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/soundtrack_altered.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/soundtrack_altered.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2956\" src=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/soundtrack_altered.gif\" alt=\"soundtrack_altered\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>THESE DEAD<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nFound in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyjrapino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Soundtrack to the End of the World&#8221;<\/a> by Anthony J Rapino (pg. 195)<\/p>\n<p>The darkness and lantern glow fell, as if drawn within.<br \/>\nThese dead<br \/>\nsprawled on the road,<br \/>\nabandoned,<br \/>\nstrewn,<br \/>\nno more than a glance in the ambient glow.<br \/>\nNumb, still,<br \/>\nabsolutely undeniably gone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of THESE DEAD? Share your thoughts below! And hey! If you want to know more about &#8220;Soundtrack to the End of the World&#8221;, check out Anthony J. Rapino&#8217;s website [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyjrapino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.anthonyjrapino.com\/<\/a>]. He also has a Patreon campaign going on as we speak at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Rapino\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Rapino<\/a> with some pretty sweet rewards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;found poems&#8221; I created in May for my Patreon campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[206,212,207],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-altered-words","tag-poetry","tag-prose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Altered Words - These Dead - MaryRajotte.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/altered-words-these-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Altered Words - These Dead - MaryRajotte.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the &quot;found poems&quot; 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