{"id":120,"date":"2023-07-01T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=120"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:07:52","slug":"fading-hopes-novelty-fictions-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/fading-hopes-novelty-fictions-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fading Hopes&#8221; &#8211; Novelty Fiction&#8217;s Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.104.jpg 265w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.104-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFading Hopes\u201d is a fine collection of 7 original short stories and 1 novelette. Novelty Fiction&#8217;s third anthology explores how people cope with hopelessness. Hope may be present in some of the stories, but the outcome is bleak, the outlook dire.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Underside of God&#8217;s Arms<\/em>: Remi&#8217;s world is crumbling, and her search for love, fulfillment and existential meaning is not working out. <em>Zahira<\/em>: Faced with paternal rejection, a young girl makes bold moves to build a life for herself, destiny willing. <em>Silver Lining<\/em>: Online gamers find themselves caught in a terrific nightmare of infinite duration. <em>Living With a Chronic Illness<\/em>: A published author copes with failing health in his own way. <em>The Prophecy<\/em>: A middle-aged businessman meets destiny at the spectacular amusement park. <em>A Journey to Her Final Home<\/em>: Edward grieves over the loss of his second wife, but her family is about to make matters worse. <em>The Marksman Trilogy<\/em>: Death is scheduled to occur at a specific date and time. Prison staff, inmates and the local community all operate on borrowed time.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>152 pages. Available in paperback and Kindle format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C9S3H929\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview \u201cFading Hopes\u201d is a fine collection of 7 original short stories and 1 novelette. Novelty Fiction&#8217;s third anthology explores how people cope with hopelessness. Hope may be present in some of the stories, but the outcome is bleak, the outlook dire. The Underside of God&#8217;s Arms: Remi&#8217;s world is crumbling, and her search for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,30,37,38,40,43,45],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anhologies","tag-cole-olasubomi","tag-holden-williams","tag-nathaniel-hawnthor","tag-olusola-akinwale","tag-phoebe-a-xavier","tag-roman-trend","tag-saadatu-ibrahim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}