{"id":3459,"date":"2011-06-26T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/fiction\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-06-26T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T10:59:57","slug":"excerpt-from-this-is-between-us-a-novel-in-progress-by-kevin-sampsell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2011\/06\/26\/excerpt-from-this-is-between-us-a-novel-in-progress-by-kevin-sampsell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection from &#8220;This Is Between Us&#8221; (a novel in progress) by Kevin Sampsell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Strip<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a strip of photos that we\u2019ve hidden somewhere. It\u2019s four pictures of us from a photo booth when we still had other people\u2019s rings on our fingers. You can see them in one of the poses. We never thought to take them off.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We thought that people would just think that we were married to each other when we were out somewhere\u2014that I gave you that ring and you gave me this ring.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We were good at pretending to be one strong couple, not a combination of two weak ones. But I do remember that time at the dessert shop when you pointed at something excitedly and accidentally called me by your husband\u2019s name. You didn\u2019t notice your mistake and I just rolled with it, like nothing happened.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no sign of rings in any other photo of us. I guess that means we\u2019re free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nKevin Sampsell lives in Portland, Oregon, where he runs <a href=\"http:\/\/futuretensebooks.com\">Future Tense Books<\/a>, an influential micropress that he started in 1990. His work has recently appeared in <em>The Rumpus<\/em>, <em>Unshod Quills<\/em>, and <em>Smalldoggies<\/em>. He recently performed a new collaboration with musician Laura Gibson at sold out Entertainment For People shows in Portland and Seattle. His most recent book is <em>A Common Pornography: A Memoir<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strip There is a strip of photos that we\u2019ve hidden somewhere. It\u2019s four pictures of us from a photo booth when we still had other people\u2019s rings on our fingers. You can see them in one of the poses. We never thought to take them off. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We thought that people would just think that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}