{"id":1759,"date":"2026-08-16T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2026-08-09T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:57:07","slug":"chapter-28-talent-contest235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/16\/chapter-28-talent-contest235\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 28 Talent Contest235"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/15\/chapter-28-talent-contest234\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page235 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/17\/chapter-28-talent-contest236\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><strong>OPENMIKE<\/strong><br \/>\n(Animated and characterful.)<br \/>\nLet\u2019s try that again, and louder this time \u2026 are you ready for this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUDIENCE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Participating widely.)<\/em><br \/>\nYes, Mike!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPENMIKE<\/strong><br \/>\n(Ebullient.)<br \/>\nThat\u2019s better! Let me hear you put your hands together for the Orchestra of MissFortune!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCENE 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(A musical piece with no dialogue.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MISSFORTUNE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(MISSFORTUNE stands just below the stage, facing the orchestra, with her back to the audience. She lifts a baton and taps her lectern smartly. Her students sit up straight, quite alert, and watch as each of the marines picks up a French horn.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANGRYBARD<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(On his debut appearance thirteen year old ANGRYBARD knows that this is the first signal. Nervously, he rises to his feet, standing in the back row of the orchestra, poised at the kettle drums.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MISSFORTUNE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(MISSFORTUNE smiles at him sympathetically and encouragingly, willing him to give the sort of robust performance which she knows he\u2019s capable of. In return ANGRYBARD displays a half hearted smile which cannot disguise his sense of foreboding.)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/15\/chapter-28-talent-contest234\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page235 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/17\/chapter-28-talent-contest236\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page235 \u2013 Next OPENMIKE (Animated and characterful.) Let\u2019s try that again, and louder this time \u2026 are you ready for this? AUDIENCE (Participating widely.) Yes, Mike! OPENMIKE (Ebullient.) That\u2019s better! Let me hear you put your hands together for the Orchestra of MissFortune! SCENE 2 (A musical piece with no dialogue.) MISSFORTUNE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/08\/16\/chapter-28-talent-contest235\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 28 Talent Contest235&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}