{"id":181,"date":"2009-03-29T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-03-29T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:08:44","slug":"gargoyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Gargoyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gargoyle\"<\/p>\n

After I finished the first draft of Sins of Blood and Stone<\/em> (my first novel, published in 2002; the first draft dates to 1996), I left Long Island and moved to Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 A good friend of mine, Gina, gave me this gargoyle as a going away gift.<\/p>\n

For eight years, he read in my room and\/or office, and guarded me from all the things from which gargoyles guard you.\u00c2\u00a0 But he was unable to accompany me to Australia, so in 2004 he took a position protecting the things we left behind.<\/p>\n

He’d done a good job.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing was missing when we returned, late in 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing, that is, except the gargoyle himself.<\/p>\n

After almost three years on the official Missing in Action<\/em> rolls, he emerged this evening every bit the hero.\u00c2\u00a0 Still modest.\u00c2\u00a0 Still content to sit and read and, whilst it may not appear so, guard and protect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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