{"id":2806,"date":"2017-07-31T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:23:22","slug":"give-me-words-paint-me-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/07\/31\/give-me-words-paint-me-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Words, Paint Me Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cTell me words that describe your universe,\u201d she begs, \u201cgive me images for what I can&#8217;t see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow? Your eyes only detect thirty-eight colours; I count them in thousands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She shakes her head and bends to kiss my hands. She knows I don\u2019t have them, but she\u2019s happy with the illusion. It\u2019s another truth she searches for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me share your reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not a chance, I think, but I can\u2019t force myself to say it. \u201cI\u2019ll try, human.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For the sake of our impossible love, for that morning when your world remained silent, for the memory of a destroyed planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/earthianhivemind.net\/\">Russell Hemmell <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russell is an alien from Mintaka snuggled into a (consenting) human host. Recent fiction on Gone Lawn, Not One of Us, Typehouse Literary Journal, and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTell me words that describe your universe,\u201d she begs, \u201cgive me images for what I can&#8217;t see.\u201d \u201cHow? Your eyes only detect thirty-eight colours; I count them in thousands.\u201d She shakes her head and bends to kiss my hands. She knows I don\u2019t have them, but she\u2019s happy with the illusion. It\u2019s another truth she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2716,6213,2720,41,2717,1775,3500,6214,2052,600,1159,2921,1240,1774,6212,465,37,3880],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alien","tag-colours","tag-eyes","tag-guest-contributor","tag-human","tag-illusion","tag-images","tag-impossible-love","tag-kiss","tag-love","tag-memory","tag-morning","tag-planet","tag-reality","tag-russell-hemmell","tag-universe","tag-words","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}