Whiskey-burn kisses
\nFuel the hurt in your eyes.
\nCan't stop it, can you?
\nThe fear, the hate, the self-loathing;
\nYou mark my skin with the bruises
\nNo one can see under yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Whiskey-burn kisses Fuel the hurt in your eyes. Can’t stop it, can you? The fear, the hate, the self-loathing; You mark my skin with the bruises No one can see under yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[298,127,83,84],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beys-tales-writing-2","tag-dreams","tag-love","tag-pain","tag-poem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cup-broken.jpg?fit=512%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-hR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1880,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/happy-monday-careened-in-wide-distribution\/","url_meta":{"origin":1107,"position":0},"title":"Happy Monday! – Careened in wide distribution","author":"Bey","date":"June 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I know Mondays suck, but this Monday happens to be the day that Careened: Winter Solstice in Madierus is finally out of Kindle Unlimited and available at ARe and Smashwords (and more places, once Smashwords gets the files out to Barnes & Noble, etc). 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