{"id":4225,"date":"2022-01-08T07:12:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:23:15","slug":"tales-from-the-town-39-the-moons-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/01\/08\/tales-from-the-town-39-the-moons-of-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #39: The Moons Of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cLook at the silly old moon,\u201d said Ethel, as she stared out through the window that had recently appeared in the ceiling of their room. \u201cIt\u2019s so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so boring<\/em>, more like,\u201d said Claire. \u201cIt barely even moves. It\u2019s the worst moon ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is,\u201d said Claire. \u201cThe best moon is the moon that\u2019s always on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the sun, Claire,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t. If it was the sun you wouldn\u2019t be able to see it at night but you can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou<\/em> can\u2019t,\u201d said Claire. \u201cI can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actual best moon,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cIs the moon made of metal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not a real<\/em> moon,\u201d said Claire. \u201cIt\u2019s made up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re<\/em> made up,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNor\u2019s the moon made of metal,\u201d said Daniel. \u201cIt\u2019s just you have to be in Australia<\/em> to see it. They have different stars and everything!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve never been to Australia, Daniel,\u201d said Claire. \u201cOr New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnna\u2019s been to Australia,\u201d said Ethel. \u201cAnd New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, good for her,\u201d said Claire. \u201cI still don\u2019t think Daniel\u2019s favourite moon should be a moon he\u2019s never seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour favourite moon is a moon we\u2019ve<\/em> never seen,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favourite moon is the ghost moon,\u201d said Tina. Everyone thought she was asleep but she wasn\u2019t at all. \u201cI\u2019ve seen that. Twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen it, too,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all seen it,\u201d said Claire. \u201cAnd anyway there\u2019s no such thing as a ghost moon. It\u2019s the apparition<\/em> moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just another word for ghost,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not. It\u2019s totally different,\u201d Claire said. \u201cAnd why would there be two words for one thing, anyway? It\u2019d be completely confusing!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd bemusing,\u201d said Tina, quietly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost perplexing,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n

\u201cConfoundingly mystifying,\u201d added Daniel. \u201cDiscombobulatingly flummoxational.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone shut up,\u201d said Claire. \u201cThose aren\u2019t even words.\u201d<\/p>\n

She flopped back down on the bed and banged her fists against the mattress.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re supposed to be watching the silly old moon, remember?\u201d Claire shouted up at the sky. \u201cNot talking<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four of them lay quietly on the bed and stared up at that mysterious new window of theirs. The moon shone through the glass like a beacon, huge and full and as bright as snow. It seemed to fill the entirety of the sky. If you looked into it long enough you could see almost anything you wanted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told you the silly old moon was boring,\u201d Claire sighed. \u201cIt\u2019s even more boring than no moon at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

But by then everyone else was asleep, and when the moon that was always on fire finally made its appearance, Claire had to watch it all on her own.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written between May 24th and May 30th, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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\u201cLook at the silly old moon,\u201d said Ethel, as she stared out through the window that had recently appeared in the ceiling of their room. \u201cIt\u2019s so beautiful.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s so boring, more like,\u201d said Claire. \u201cIt barely even moves. It\u2019s the worst moon ever.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not!\u201d \u201cIt is,\u201d said Claire. \u201cThe best moon is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1192,455,1209,59],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-a-cast-of-characters","tag-moons","tag-tales-from-the-town","tag-the-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}