{"id":3102,"date":"2012-08-21T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:17:44","slug":"bullets-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3102","title":{"rendered":"Bullets and Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bullets and Fire<\/a><\/em> (2009) Joe R. Lansdale<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I swear I’ve read a story almost exactly like this before. Details I didn’t know, but I knew precisely where it was going.<\/p>\n

But part of the following quote was familiar:<\/p>\n

Dad told me once, that if people don’t care about where they live, the way they act, people they associate with, they get lost in the dark, can’t find their way back cause there’s no light left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not as if I’d read it in context, but as if I’d read it quoted somewhere.<\/p>\n

Rather strange, all together.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Gere Donovan Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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But part of the following quote was familiar: Dad told me once, that if people don’t care about where they live, the way they act, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[840],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-short-story","tag-joe-r-lansdale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-O2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3314,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3314","url_meta":{"origin":3102,"position":0},"title":"Bubba Ho-Tep","author":"Michelle","date":"November 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Bubba Ho-Tep (2012) Joe R. 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