{"id":3476,"date":"2026-11-03T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:06:57","slug":"sweet-fall-story-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/sweet-fall-story-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Fall Story Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3477\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/KQ_Harvest_Moon_200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>The Kissmet Quarterly anthology for Autumn 2026 is now available. It&#8217;s titled\u00a0 <em><strong><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\">KissMet Quarterly: Shine On Harvest Moon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\">My story in this titled, &#8220;Apple Picking Time.&#8221;\u00a0 Here are the first few paragraphs:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no apples on the lower branches,\u201d Liddy said. \u201cHow are we going to collect any?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julie sighed. Her twelve-year-old sister was right. The lower branches were stripped bare by others who\u2019d already harvested the pick-it-yourself orchard. She looked around, but all the trees she could see suffered the same issue. Neither of them was very tall, and Liddy could only stand for a few brief moments at a time, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Julie hated to disappoint her sister. She had so few outings like this. Julie had promised her apples fresh from the tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies,\u201d a deep, smooth voice said from behind. \u201cCan I help you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Order here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/KissMet-Quarterly-Shine-Harvest-Moon\/dp\/B0HPNG6RMX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/KissMet-Quarterly-Shine-Harvest-Moon\/dp\/B0HPNG6RMX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kissmet Quarterly anthology for Autumn 2026 is now available. It&#8217;s titled\u00a0 KissMet Quarterly: Shine On Harvest Moon.\u00a0\u00a0My story in this titled, &#8220;Apple Picking Time.&#8221;\u00a0 Here are the first few paragraphs: \u201cThere are no apples on the lower branches,\u201d Liddy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/sweet-fall-story-now-available\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,337,7,402],"tags":[484,482,483],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-holidays","category-romance","category-short-stories","tag-apple-picking-time","tag-kissmet-quarterly","tag-shine-on-harvest-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}