{"id":176,"date":"2023-08-21T02:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-4\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:35:42","slug":"swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenji Asagawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/b1c2f6a7bc9f8cbe87b78ca30d1d15f4\/f2c91b126cd3260a-ae\/s640x960\/f09500502c337f7b5620af9f97b28e13ba72993d.png\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2292\" alt=\"Magic is here, ready to store your data and keep your cell phone charged... endlessly. At least that\u2019s what the salespeople would have you believe.\n\nKenji Asagawa, Cameron Green\u2019s apparent neighbor, has more important concerns than rich people hawking unreliable technology. After a job gone wrong, he\u2019s got to make sure the knife that\u2019s coming isn\u2019t gonna show up between his own ribs.\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/f872e24ca9ab5d7b49c8c88d707018c7\/f2c91b126cd3260a-cb\/s640x960\/b9aeacdb7a1736959736e9e66a1b08baf6e421a0.png\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2292\" alt=\"Feet dangling over the dark underside of the city, his own wit and reflexes are all that\u2019s between him and a final fall. \nHow far will he go to find answers and what will he do once he has them?\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1116\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/45b4d56b43d452123955f7e2b00d629a\/f2c91b126cd3260a-7c\/s640x960\/39a16e45390376d0045e4aefaaa1dcbad14cc35b.png\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1116\" alt=\"Kenji: I can\u2019t be the main character. My plan is to not grow at all. Negative character change.\n\nCameron: Unfortunately, we know that\u2019s not true. You\u2019re the poster child for right motivation, wrong actions.\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose.<\/p>\n<p>(When you&rsquo;re too busy with hijinks to bother with this main character business.)<\/p>\n<p>Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from the beginning at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALT ALT ALT Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose. (When you&rsquo;re too busy with hijinks to bother with this main character business.) Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from the beginning at\u00a0https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":5,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186,187],"tags":[18,26,29,16,50,17,27],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterdark","category-prelaunch","tag-indie-author","tag-novel","tag-original-fiction","tag-serial-fiction","tag-sh-ad","tag-syphoncontinuity","tag-web-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}