A shop window full of pewter dragons and figurines of fairies and imps and all those other terrible high street gift shop horrors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey look that one looks like you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does, it looks exactly like you. Except for the wings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve always had wings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah. Except for the tail, then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve always had a tail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah. Well, except for the sparkling cut-diamond eyes then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve always had sparkling multi-faceted cut-diamond eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah. Well, it looks exactly like you except for the way it\u2019s got its hands round that other statue\u2019s neck.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she throttled him to death and flew away home to the moon.<\/p>\n
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Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written in 2014 sometime<\/em> A shop window full of pewter dragons and figurines of fairies and imps and all those other terrible high street gift shop horrors. \u201cHey look that one looks like you.\u201d \u201cNo it doesn\u2019t.\u201d \u201cIt does, it looks exactly like you. Except for the wings.\u201d \u201cBut I\u2019ve always had wings.\u201d \u201cOh, yeah. Except for the tail, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[15,1426,1094,620,28],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-short-story-or-two","tag-dreams","tag-fantasy","tag-magic","tag-shops","tag-transformations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","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=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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