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Night Shift<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rats run across the A1 and fade<\/p>\n into the hard shoulder. I shake my<\/p>\n head, wind down the window, take<\/p>\n deep breaths of iced air and bonfire<\/p>\n <\/p>\n remnants until I reach the services,<\/p>\n park, and let my eyes close for a<\/p>\n hundred seconds. Want to call but<\/p>\n you’re at The George in your leather<\/p>\n <\/p>\n jacket and orange lipstick, and you<\/p>\n never answer anyway. The phone<\/p>\n rings and sends me to Oxford, so I<\/p>\n slap my cheeks, switch on some<\/p>\n <\/p>\n grime, and I’m fine until I reach<\/p>\n the lights, where there’s a man<\/p>\n kneeling by his car, spanner in hand,<\/p>\n working at his wheel, and when I<\/p>\n <\/p>\n slow down to look, he’s gone.<\/p>\n I accelerate, see flashes in the trees,<\/p>\n but I focus on the cats’ eyes, turn up<\/p>\n the radio, go into fifth .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hannah Tuson<\/strong> lives in Hertfordshire. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Notes From the Underground, Cadaverine Magazine, <\/em>Spread the Word’s 2012 anthology: Things That Have Happened, Pomegranate, MAP, Message in a Bottle<\/em> and Mslexia.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Night Shift Rats run across the A1 and fade into the hard shoulder. I shake my head, wind down the window, take deep breaths of iced air and bonfire remnants until I reach the services, park, and let my eyes close for a hundred seconds. Want to call but you’re at […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","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=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}