{"id":24453,"date":"2026-06-09T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:45:31","slug":"you-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/flash-fiction\/you-said\/","title":{"rendered":"You Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You, uh, said you\u2019d be here by 9. It\u2019s after 11. We were supposed to smoke up, listen to some records.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019re drunk, you say, puking into my toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, you\u2019re moving away. It\u2019s our last night. Looking out the corner of your eye at my mattress on the floor. You\u2019re not even pretty. I made the bed for you. You\u2019re lying in it, wearing that ugly t-shirt. Try to kiss you, but you roll over. AC conked out a week ago and the fan\u2019s just blowing hot air around. The City is fucking loud and one asshole won\u2019t stop laying on the horn. Thought I\u2019d be inside you tonight. You said. Waited all summer. I\u2019m just gonna\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t, you say. At least put on a condom.<\/p>\n<p>Next morning, you won\u2019t eat the lox and bagels I bought. Fucking shit is expensive. That night you call me. You hurt me, you say.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ok. Just don\u2019t do that to the college student you tutor.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck you, bitch. You don\u2019t know a thing about her. She\u2019s beautiful. Fuck off to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC conked out a week ago and the fan\u2019s just blowing hot air around. The City is fucking loud and one asshole won\u2019t stop laying on the horn. Thought I\u2019d be inside you tonight. You said. Waited all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":25413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-fiction","writer-dina-perthakines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25414,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/25414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}