{"id":22177,"date":"2023-08-26T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22177"},"modified":"2023-09-04T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:52:00","slug":"come-unto-these-yellow-sands-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22177","title":{"rendered":"Come Unto These Yellow Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come Unto These Yellow Sands<\/a><\/em> (2011) Josh Lanyon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Come<\/a><\/p>\n

It would be nice to believe in something like God. To believe some higher power with a greater purpose was concealed behind the violence and chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Max grunted. \u201cDid you see any other possibilities?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t let myself look for them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He couldn\u2019t afford this. Couldn\u2019t afford to start thinking about these things. He would never be strong enough to face these memories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come Unto These Yellow Sands (2011) Josh Lanyon It would be nice to believe in something like God. To believe some higher power with a greater purpose was concealed behind the violence and chaos. Max grunted. \u201cDid you see any other possibilities?\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t let myself look for them.\u201d He couldn\u2019t afford this. Couldn\u2019t afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[13,668,292,207,8,148,41,26,56],"tags":[403,50,213,177,544],"class_list":["post-22177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-addiction","tag-boinking","tag-grief","tag-josh-lanyon","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5LH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13908,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13908","url_meta":{"origin":22177,"position":0},"title":"Come Unto These Yellow Sands","author":"Michelle","date":"January 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Come Unto These Yellow Sands (2017) Josh Lanyon Professor Sebastian Swift was raised to be a poet--and it almost destroyed him. 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