{"id":1975,"date":"2006-11-07T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/11\/07\/no-reason-to-be-scared-of-other-people-were-the-ones-who-carry-the-flame-the-light\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T02:23:00","slug":"no-reason-to-be-scared-of-other-people-were-the-ones-who-carry-the-flame-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/11\/07\/no-reason-to-be-scared-of-other-people-were-the-ones-who-carry-the-flame-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"“No reason to be scared of other people. We’re the ones who carry the flame, the light.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday – we were still a city burning, but now on the horizon, as if the time between us were embodied in distance, impulsive steps out into a desert. Persepolis<\/a>, though his name might be the name of my next god-child, I was never certain if I would wake next to him again<\/a>. Enchanting, built of admirable social immunities, a strange ruin painted with glyphs that I desperately want to run my fingers over. Even in the bed, under familiar strings of lights that sang starlight like blood-cells<\/a>, wrapped around a body that felt like evolution’s most satisfying proof, I didn’t know if he would keep me safe in the morning. He did today. I know I want him to again. <\/p>\n

33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction.<\/a> The old meme is back, what’s yours?<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday – a different house, one letter different. I literally vaulted over him to get out of bed when I realized we’d slept through the alarm. Over and out, into the rest of my clothes and up the stairs, without even saying goodbye, leaving only a kiss brushed quickly on his cheek, too quietly to wake him fully. My last glimpse of him, through the closing bedroom door, was one of a selkie trying to hide under blankets. It was only at the bus-stop that I realized I was going to be fine, I wasn’t even close to being late. Tea could have happened, breakfast even. I wondered, belatedly, if I should have woken Mark-with-a-K for his audition and mildly cursed the erratic illusion of clarity that comes from waking in unfamiliar surroundings. Early mornings after late nights, working seven days in a week, it wears – I left my mother’s umbrella behind in my abstracted rush.<\/p>\n

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Sunday – we were still a city burning, but now on the horizon, as if the time between us were embodied in distance, impulsive steps out into a desert. Persepolis, though his name might be the name of my next god-child, I was never certain if I would wake next to him again. Enchanting, built … Continue reading ““No reason to be scared of other people. We’re the ones who carry the flame, the light.””<\/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":[1],"tags":[415,917,464,923],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marc","tag-mark","tag-persepolis","tag-the-big-bad-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}