{"id":10928,"date":"2016-05-29T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:11:08","slug":"vicky-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/vicky-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghosted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like he\u2019d planned to wake up<br \/>\nafter 23 years of marriage,<br \/>\nto find the taps turned off,<br \/>\neverything dried out on the draining board,<br \/>\nno one checking the mains,<br \/>\nbulb gone in the hall,<br \/>\nthe garden too barbered for its own good.<\/p>\n<p>He laced up his quietest loafers,<br \/>\ngrabbed some socks from the top drawer,<br \/>\nslid his passport from a copy of Punch,<br \/>\nloaded his toolboxes into the car.<br \/>\nWhile she stared at the TV she\u2019d never watched before.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s plug without a fuse,<br \/>\nremote control in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vicky Morris<\/strong> writes poetry and short stories. She runs groups and projects for young writers. In 2013 she made the documentary &#8211; Dyslexic &amp; Loving Words and in 2014 she won the Northern Writers Arvon Award.\u00a0 Website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vickymorris.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">: www.vickymorris.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ghosted It\u2019s not like he\u2019d planned to wake up after 23 years of marriage, to find the taps turned off, everything dried out on the draining board, no one checking the mains, bulb gone in the hall, the garden too barbered for its own good. He laced up his quietest loafers, grabbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23830,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/23830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}