{"id":164,"date":"2013-07-21T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-07-21T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:04:26","slug":"impossible-spaces-now-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Spaces &#8211; now out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/impossible-spaces-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-165\" alt=\"impossible spaces cover\" src=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/impossible-spaces-cover-203x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/impossible-spaces-cover-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/impossible-spaces-cover-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/impossible-spaces-cover.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>I have a story in the new Hic Dragones anthology, Impossible Spaces. I was thinking about interchangeable places, as a theme for the story &#8211; railway stations, bus stations, chain stores, that kind of thing. Then I started to think about natural situations, and it struck me that fog is a great equaliser. In fog, sound is deadened, and the landscape disappears. In the fog, we can be entirely alone. I started to think about a woman, alone in the fog. I started to wonder, what if she wasn&#8217;t alone? What if the fog was her companion?<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed writing Mistfall, it was one of those stories that just fell out, fully formed. It&#8217;s got twisted love, and death, and rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll. What more could you want?<\/p>\n<p>Impossible Spaces is available now, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hic-dragones.co.uk\/impossible-spaces\/\">Hic Dragones. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copies are also available at the wonderful Ebb and Flo bookshop, Gillibrand St, Chorley, or directly from me. \u00a38.99 or \u00a311.69 by post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story in the new Hic Dragones anthology, Impossible Spaces. I was thinking about interchangeable places, as a theme for the story &#8211; railway stations, bus stations, chain stores, that kind of thing. Then I started to think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-hic-dragones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloginbasket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}