{"id":1107,"date":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2021-08-06T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:08:48","slug":"5-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/09\/24\/5-stunts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Stunts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-1024x745.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2254\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?attachment_id=2254\" class=\"wp-image-2254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4-1568x1140.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunt3arms4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"734\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntcrack3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2256\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntcrack3.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?attachment_id=2256\" class=\"wp-image-2256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntcrack3.jpg 734w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntcrack3-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2257\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?attachment_id=2257\" class=\"wp-image-2257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-1024x792.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1-1568x1212.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stunthangm1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"741\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntlp5.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2258\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntlp5.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?attachment_id=2258\" class=\"wp-image-2258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntlp5.jpg 741w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntlp5-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"806\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntmirror2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2259\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntmirror2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?attachment_id=2259\" class=\"wp-image-2259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntmirror2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntmirror2-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/files\/2021\/08\/stuntmirror2-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<div align=\"center\">Stunts<br \/><br \/>sometimes called tricks, roughhouse beneath or within, like the thump of furnaces or blood. Stunts are essential, life without them a mere withered jerky. Stunts can be seen only in the acts they inhabit, often the deceptively plain and thwarted ones, like striking sticky piano keys, jiggling poorly copied door keys, folding a mate-less sock into itself, or eating the stale little candy that comes with the <br \/><br \/>check.<br \/><br \/>Stunts <br \/><br \/>put metal pins in her ankles. Made stitches crosshatch her legs. Sent her to Schools for Wayward Girls, Reeducation Motels, Glacier Farms and Outward, Way-Outward Bound Camps. Brought her to this ledge where she missed, then rolled the impact to a sideways scale over that last, broken-glass perimeter<br \/><br \/>wall.<br \/><br \/>She <br \/><br \/>landed. She looked up and down the street and Cat\u2019s Cradled to cure homeless hands, under a sky that was just itching to hear bad news. Her glass held water now. She spoke plain. No tongues, no haints, no rocket fuel, no spirits, no sprites, no shine. Her eyes fired blanks. She was stunted out, so they <br \/><br \/>said.<br \/><br \/>A<br \/><br \/>trap snapped branch cracked dead almost dropped her. They said \u201ctramp.\u201d Breaking mirrors or clocks or branches or limbs may have been just making a mess to them but necessary stomps, like a tribal dance that got wrecks to sing anew. Things in a rubbery long skirt. It is stretched out by her legs. They operate double joints. They stretch skirt shapes like upside down cowls of monks. Or bells dangling in bell towers. Or the gabby mouths of proud thieves. As hanging on clappers as tonsils like wrecking balls. This is a woman being rung in and out of <br \/><br \/>her.<br \/><br \/>There<br \/><br \/>was the time that her stunts just made a mess and broke things, people or herself. So maybe if she tried the Don\u2019t Try This At Home she could what, hang up her skirt and high top sneakers? How was that going to work? How was anything going to work? It was like going to work. Like getting up in the morning, the sheer impossible, the sheared<br \/><br \/>impossible<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gregg Williard<\/strong>&#8216;s work has appeared in <em>Diagram, Anemone Sidecar, decomP<\/em> and <em>The Collagist<\/em>, among others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunts sometimes called tricks, roughhouse beneath or within, like the thump of furnaces or blood. Stunts are essential, life without them a mere withered jerky. Stunts can be seen only in the acts they inhabit, often the deceptively plain and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926,21988],"tags":[22226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}