{"id":3611,"date":"2016-10-07T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2016-10-07T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:08:20","slug":"free-short-story-the-business-of-thorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Free Short Story: &#8220;The Business of Thorns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-medium wp-image-3612\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/blog\/the-business-of-thorns-by-shannon-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thorns-Quote-5-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"thorns-quote-5\" width=\"415\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thorns-Quote-5-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thorns-Quote-5-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thorns-Quote-5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thorns-Quote-5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My story from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/store\/p118\/Speculative_Story_Bites_%28ebook%29.html\">Speculative Story Bites<\/a><\/em> anthology has been reprinted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/blog\/the-business-of-thorns-by-shannon-phillips\">the publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>, and they even made this pretty little pull-quote graphic to go with it, so that&#8217;s nice. <\/p>\n<p>The story&#8217;s about a flower fairy-turned-gumshoe and her ex-girlfriend, and also botany. And also murder.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, flower fairies, yeah. Cicely Mary Barker drew us as little nymphets with buttercup hats and dragonfly wings, having tea parties with mice or some twee shit like that. I think Cicely knew Morning Glory, and Glory\u2019s always been fanciful. Her seeds are laced with a psychedelic compound, you know\u2014and not one that\u2019s particularly friendly to humans that go chasing that high. Neural damage, convulsions: Cicely was epileptic.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not slamming Glory, though. We\u2019re the same type, her and me: wild, rambling, greedy for life. We take root anywhere and we\u2019re damn hard to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Like this one time&#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/blog\/the-business-of-thorns-by-shannon-phillips\">Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My story from the Speculative Story Bites anthology has been reprinted on the publisher&#8217;s website, and they even made this pretty little pull-quote graphic to go with it, so that&#8217;s nice. The story&#8217;s about a flower fairy-turned-gumshoe and her ex-girlfriend, and also botany. And also murder. So, flower fairies, yeah. Cicely Mary Barker drew us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}