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The saturated stain on your lips means \u201cI love you.\u201d <br><br>It tastes metallic while ever so sweet. breathe in and you\u2019ll<br>be consumed by the aroma of office ink. don\u2019t drown in the ink as you chomp chomp chomp on the cherries. bite into me like a pit and I will show you what red means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Natalie Knox Cherry cherries carry on with your deep red saturation on the walls of my HBIC\u2019s office. carry on with that silly dream, only if you like the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lunarjournal\/2025\/08\/20\/r-e-d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R-E-D<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R-E-D - Lunar Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lunarjournal\/2025\/08\/20\/r-e-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"R-E-D - Lunar Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Natalie Knox Cherry cherries carry on with your deep red saturation on the walls of my HBIC\u2019s office. carry on with that silly dream, only if you like the&hellip; 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