{"id":862,"date":"2004-09-25T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/25\/at-night-i-will-protect-you-in-your-dreams\/"},"modified":"2004-09-25T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T10:01:00","slug":"at-night-i-will-protect-you-in-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/25\/at-night-i-will-protect-you-in-your-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"At night I will protect you in your dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s repeating, with more detail every time. Illumination from a barely open door doesn&#8217;t show me enough but to know my setting. Light glinting barely off the brass finish lamp on the side table. If I were to look at the stiff blanket, I would see that ubiquitous floral pattern that no-one has in their home but welcomes travellers into every hired lodging. <\/p>\n<p>Holy hell. I can&#8217;t think straight now. Sex-drenched musky thoughts, dreaming of fingertips, teeth, and that damned hotel room. Waking to something worse, deeper. This is my bed, but I can&#8217;t lie in it. It&#8217;s empty. Trying to fall back into sleep was not working and oh terrible, as I write this the alarm just went off. I can&#8217;t stop my fingers from turning into claws, I can&#8217;t stop my involuntary curl into myself. Pulse. There&#8217;s a knot in my belly, a tender pain above my knees. Hell is made of wanting. Pooling like water, I wake when I get to the interesting parts. Desire freezing into the most painful hot fire. Perfect little dreams, the sort that seem to kill me. I&#8217;m not used to it. This is new. Open my eyes to pad barefoot and naked into the day. Insanity, these feelings. Does everyone get this? I can still feel you, in spite of the distance. Hands caught in my tangled hair even so far away. There&#8217;s cruelty here, of the most poignant sort. Poise an inch above me, waiting until I beg. I can see it. Yeah, you&#8217;ve got that soul. Don&#8217;t think for a minute I can&#8217;t do it too. Wait until I wake up, I&#8217;ll play right back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s repeating, with more detail every time. Illumination from a barely open door doesn&#8217;t show me enough but to know my setting. Light glinting barely off the brass finish lamp on the side table. If I were to look at the stiff blanket, I would see that ubiquitous floral pattern that no-one has in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/25\/at-night-i-will-protect-you-in-your-dreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At night I will protect you in your dreams&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}