{"id":4250,"date":"2022-02-19T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2021-06-10T19:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:41:31","slug":"tales-from-the-town-45-a-cave-full-of-slowly-melting-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/02\/19\/tales-from-the-town-45-a-cave-full-of-slowly-melting-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #45: A Cave Full Of Slowly Melting Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sea outside was no longer frozen, but the cave itself was filled with slowly melting snow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a houseplant now,\u201d Tina said. \u201cI feed it strawberries and apricots and then it sings itself to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw seven thousand seven hundred and sixty eight spiders,\u201d Ethel said. \u201cAll at once!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I died and went to hell<\/em>!\u201d Claire said gleefully. \u201cFor a whole afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI chopped the head off a dragon!\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did not<\/em>!\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did,\u201d Daniel insisted. \u201cAnd then I chopped it off again when it grew back, and then I ran away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that at all,\u201d Claire said. \u201cIf you\u2019d done all that we\u2019d know. There\u2019d be stories about it and everything<\/em>. You’re just making things up to impress Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cIt really happened. But no one saw.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had been a long time since Antoine had had any guests. He wasn\u2019t exactly sure what he was supposed to say. Eventually he noticed the children had all gone quiet. In the silence of the moment the only sounds were the crackles of the fire and the crabs clacking their claws in anger at the snow. Breath and smoke mingled and rose up into the dark.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinter lasts forever and then all of a sudden it\u2019s gone,\u201d he said eventually. His children looked at him in a way which made him doubt whether he was even there.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written on June 8th, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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The sea outside was no longer frozen, but the cave itself was filled with slowly melting snow. \u201cI\u2019ve got a houseplant now,\u201d Tina said. \u201cI feed it strawberries and apricots and then it sings itself to sleep.\u201d \u201cI saw seven thousand seven hundred and sixty eight spiders,\u201d Ethel said. \u201cAll at once!\u201d \u201cWell, I died […]<\/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":[1192,1209],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-a-cast-of-characters","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}