{"id":2945,"date":"2016-01-29T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2016-01-29T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:40:19","slug":"virus-by-kerry-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/virus-by-kerry-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus by Kerry Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2881\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2881\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4.jpg?resize=604%2C753\" alt=\"Micheal Savas\" width=\"604\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4.jpg?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Micheal Savas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Virus<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Kerry Graham<\/p>\n<p>He slid my just-fallen flip-flop back on my foot. I thought, &#8220;He treats me like a princess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, it surprised me when, his head in my lap, my fingers in his hair, I disclosed my diagnosis, and, gazing at me, he said, &#8220;I&#8217;m actually even more attracted to you now. You&#8217;re so honest.&#8221; Later, his lips hopscotching along my shoulder, neck, nose, mouth made sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think sometimes I tell people to see if they&#8217;ll still love me.&#8221; I said this after, but he was asleep: just-fallen. In the dark, my toes still tingled where his kisses, tender, had tumbled.<\/p>\n<p>XXX<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Graham lives, teaches, writes, runs, and photographs in Baltimore, MD. Her work has appeared in The Blue Hour, The Three Quarter Review, Spry, elephant journal, and 20 Something Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He slid my just-fallen flip-flop back on my foot. I thought, &#8220;He treats me like a princess.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-short"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}