{"id":216,"date":"2025-11-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:45:46","slug":"a-pothos-once-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/a-pothos-once-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pothos, Once Freed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-8a65125\" data-block-id=\"8a65125\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">In this universe, she kept the window closed. Her pothos plant pressed its leaves against the glass and stretched toward the sky as best it could.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-b2c0760\" data-block-id=\"b2c0760\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">In a parallel universe, she perched her pothos plant on a wide-open windowsill. So, the pothos twined over a hundred feet up the fire escape and spread to cover the roof in a tangle of vines and three-foot long leaves. The building became a refuge for nearby creatures looking for relief from the dry heat of unadorned concrete. Her brother\u2019s pet frog moved out to follow its dream of creating a moss garden in the moisture released by the air conditioning unit. A friend\u2019s iguana became a tour guide for local geckos, who came from far and wide to ask how they could get a pothos jungle started in their neighborhood.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-c75776d\" data-block-id=\"c75776d\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">Around the city, people woke to discover window glass was missing\u2014missing from their windows, but also from every store and supplier in the whole region. Attempts to resupply the glass with shipments failed. And in the meantime, vines snuck out, and up, and over. Vines braided themselves above streets and shaded the sidewalks. Soon, the canopy was so thick you had to go to the roof to get any sunlight at all.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-9c6fa28\" data-block-id=\"9c6fa28\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">In this universe, she kept the window closed. The pothos plant strained against the window, trying to get out. A gecko paused on the other side of the glass. It pulled out a glass cutter.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-divider stk-block-divider stk-block stk-628319e\" data-block-id=\"628319e\"><style>.stk-628319e hr.stk-block-divider__hr{background:var(--theme-palette-color-1, #FF4242) !important;}.stk-628319e {margin-top:var(--stk--preset--spacing--superbspacing-small, clamp(20px, 4vw, 40px)) !important;margin-bottom:var(--stk--preset--spacing--superbspacing-small, clamp(20px, 4vw, 40px)) !important;}<\/style><hr class=\"stk-block-divider__hr\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-14e00b8\" data-block-id=\"14e00b8\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\"><strong>Sarah Grace Tuttle<\/strong> is an autistic, queer, polygender author and poet. Their speculative writing has been published in Worlds of Possibility, New Myths, The Pink Hydra, and more. You can visit them online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahgracetuttle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.sarahgracetuttle.com<\/a>\u00a0to keep up with all their writerly joys and chaos.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this universe, she kept the window closed. Her pothos plant pressed its leaves against the glass and stretched toward the sky as best it could. In a parallel universe, she perched her pothos plant on a wide-open windowsill. 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