{"id":577,"date":"2005-02-14T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/02\/14\/the-cold-man-3\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:23:27","slug":"the-cold-man-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/02\/14\/the-cold-man-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“You are human,” says the flat voice. “You’ll give in eventually.”<\/p>\n

“But it costs you, doesn’t it?” He gags and spits black, then grins; his teeth are full of blood. “Every minute I hold out costs you.” He doesn’t stutter. Not yet.<\/p>\n

Silence, then: “Your price?”<\/p>\n

“There’s people that need killing.”<\/p>\n

“Name them.”<\/p>\n

“No. I’ll do it. I want six bullets, and my life back for long enough to spend them.”<\/p>\n

Six things tink on the concrete. One of them is a key.<\/p>\n

“I said six.”<\/p>\n

“I have no illusions,” says the voice, dry now, “about the target of the last.”<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You are human,” says the flat voice. “You’ll give in eventually.” “But it costs you, doesn’t it?” He gags and spits black, then grins; his teeth are full of blood. “Every minute I hold out costs you.” He doesn’t stutter. Not yet. Silence, then: “Your price?” “There’s people that need killing.” “Name them.” “No. I’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rita","tag-the-cold-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}