{"id":2988,"date":"2026-07-16T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:45:59","slug":"once-upon-a-time-there-was-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/once-upon-a-time-there-was-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time there was truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"I<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Natasha Butler-Rahman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have not seen the gigantic, shadowy form, clothed like the ghost in Hamlet<\/em>,
withered like a flower
snapped upon the stalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phantasm was seen at midnight,
lost beneath the shadow of castle walls; but soon
reached the moon’s gloom
cradled in fitful beams,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a skull-headed lady
in complete radiance
something very shocking and terrible
to advance slowly along the avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will each write a ghost story,” was heard,
just when the creature
began to move like a reanimated corpse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with shut eyes, but acute mental vision\u2014 I thought and pondered\u2014vainly.
images arose in my mind
I saw\u2014 the stiff shape of the pale traveller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I busied myself fashioning imagery
to manufacture the machinery of a story
infusing life into an inanimate conception of my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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