{"id":873,"date":"2010-11-05T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=873"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:26:00","slug":"leland-thoburn-is-no-longer-feeling-brittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/leland-thoburn-is-no-longer-feeling-brittle\/","title":{"rendered":"Leland Thoburn is no longer feeling brittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;\">Brittle<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">It had been five years. Five years of interminable aching before I could sleep, and five years of disbelieving when I awoke. Five years of not knowing what to do with myself at breakfast, dinner and lunch. Five years of remembering.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">But on the advent of the sixth, something changed. I awoke one morning, curious.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I lifted the shades. Dust motes sparkled as they fell through the sunlight that poured into my tomb. My skin warmed to its touch.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I looked outside. The trees seemed greener that I remembered.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I looked inside. It was over.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">* Leland Thoburn<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> has had 30 stories picked up for publication. He was the runner-up in <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Writers Journal\u2019s 2008 Fiction Contest<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> and he won the 2009 <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Arkansas College Media Conference<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> award for fiction. You can find more at <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/lelandthoburn.wordpress.com\">http:\/\/lelandthoburn.wordpress.com<\/a><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrittleIt had been five years. Five years of interminable aching before I could sleep, and five years of disbelieving when I awoke. Five years of not knowing what to do with myself at breakfast, dinner and lunch. Five years of remembering.But on the advent of the sixth, something changed. I awoke one morning, curious.I lifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}