{"id":10144,"date":"2024-06-03T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:38:30","slug":"as-luck-would-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/as-luck-would-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"As Luck Would Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>I should have warned you.<\/li>\n<li>their color-coded jackets<\/li>\n<li>supple lilac leather<\/li>\n<li>as fascinating as they are adorable<\/li>\n<li>took off her crown and started beating him with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 907 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, I am a seventh-order digital mystic.<em> I should have warned you.<\/em> I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re surprised because digital mystics are known for <em>their color-coded jackets<\/em> which make it easy to tell the orders apart, and I never wear mine. I&#8217;d loved the <em>supple lilac leather<\/em> moto jacket I was awarded upon ascending to the seventh order &#8212; those things are <em>as fascinating as they are adorable<\/em>! &#8212; but, it was stolen from me years ago. I was attending a family function at the White House when my parents got into a heated argument. My father (the president) arrived late, with one of his many mistresses on his arm. My mother (then vice-president) <em>took off her crown and started beating him with it<\/em>. The brawl escalated quickly and I stepped in to prevent it from becoming (another) international incident. When I returned to my seat, my resplendent purple jacket was gone. I always suspected Jason of the theft, but now that I knew my memory had been tampered with, my suspicions fell on the mysteriously unknown Ursula.<\/p>\n<p>My thumbs danced across the phone screen, forcing the nanobots to do a hard restart. The pharma woman was distracted by the cheese plate, so I surreptitiously pocketed her phone.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have warned you. their color-coded jackets supple lilac leather as fascinating as they are adorable took off her crown and started beating him with it Tune in next time part 907 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments As luck would have it, I am a seventh-order digital mystic. I should have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,550,341,403],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-cheese","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}