{"id":819,"date":"2019-02-08T01:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T01:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=819"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:55:35","slug":"ogre-by-suzanne-verrall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/02\/08\/ogre-by-suzanne-verrall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogre by Suzanne Verrall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><em>Suzanne Verrall lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Monkeybicycle, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzanneverrall.com\/\"><em>www.suzanneverrall.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><strong><br><\/strong>Ogre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ogre lived in the dense damp core of the forest. His\ntreasures \u2013 the sheep with their self-spinning fleeces, the unsnuffling pigs \u2013\nwere born and grew and died as they had for all memory. Only the ogre had no\nbeginning or end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A silver-skinned princess stumbled into the forest. She\nwore a look of terror as if having woken to find herself blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ogre smelt her. He lumbered through the forest,\ncrushing wildflowers in his haste to glimpse her amongst the green-black shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day and night he watched her scavenging for berries,\nsipping dew from bladed grass. He fell in love. She became more beautiful and\nhis love grew until it reached the last unvisited corner of his mighty ogre\nheart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At which time he took the princess in his trunk-like\narms and squeezed every last drop of life from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was what was expected of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Verrall lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Monkeybicycle, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0www.suzanneverrall.com Ogre The ogre lived in the dense damp core of the forest. His treasures \u2013 the sheep with their self-spinning fleeces, the unsnuffling pigs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/02\/08\/ogre-by-suzanne-verrall\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}