{"id":12278,"date":"2023-01-18T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:19:45","slug":"reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynolds<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was standing outside of a bookshop <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a city beset by wild winter winds <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A blush velvet chair was in its small window <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A woman almost hidden within a thick black coat <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stood next to me and handed me a photograph <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image although aged was of a white skull <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently exhumed from its eternal rest <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She told me a story which was as chilled as air <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man had been exhumed after twenty years <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time had not been kind to his remains <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the skull detached when moved from the grave <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was then that the photograph had been taken <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked of the reason why the image had been recorded <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And was told that although empty the sound of an object <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could be detected in its cavity <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was thought that it was the brain shrivelled after death <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the brain is one of the first organs to decay <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it was supposed that it was a brain tumour calcified <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was told that my assumption was unlikely <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that the man exhumed was a likely murder victim <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman then turned and vanished into the night<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew then that I had been hired as I was a detective <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final detective working in this city of pilgrims <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the reverse side of the photograph the woman <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had left her name <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was standing outside of a bookshop  In a city beset by wild winter winds  A blush velvet chair was in its small window  A woman almost hidden within a thick black coat  Stood next to me and handed me a photograph  The image although aged was of a white skull  Recently exhumed from its eternal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12279,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}