{"id":10216,"date":"2024-07-01T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:44:15","slug":"i-always-trust-my-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-always-trust-my-instincts\/","title":{"rendered":"I Always Trust My Instincts"},"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\" \/>twice as much poop<\/li>\n<li>she\u2019s one queenly lady<\/li>\n<li>brother was not happy<\/li>\n<li>he\u2019s definitely dodgy<\/li>\n<li>but you are the exception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 915 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I always trust my instincts, and things usually work out well. There are times, though, when I land in a world of poop. And the fact that the nanobots controlling me wouldn&#8217;t even let me <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think<\/span> of the other, nastier, word for poop meant that I was in <em>twice as much poop<\/em> as I&#8217;d thought just a moment ago.<\/p>\n<p>Poop.<\/p>\n<p>I could think of only one person who would program such prudish nanobots. Her name&#8217;s Ursula, and <em>she&#8217;s one queenly lady<\/em>. That I could now remember her meant that at least one part of my plan had worked. I wasn&#8217;t sure I was better off, though. Remembering Ursula meant also remembering Bjorn, and that was dangerous. Back at the Academy, Ursula&#8217;s <em>brother was not happy<\/em> that she was spending time with me. I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;ve ever heard of Bjorn, but <em>he&#8217;s definitely dodgy<\/em>, devilish, and downright dangerous. I don&#8217;t remember how he altered my memory to make me forget I ever met his sister, but clearly he did.<\/p>\n<p>My dancing feet twirled me around, and my sultry strut carried me away from the slippery tiled stairs. My eyes darted to every corner, hoping to spot whoever was controlling me. Just because Ursula programmed the bots didn&#8217;t mean she was still in charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, Ursula,&#8221; I said, utterly without intending to. &#8220;I thought that there was no one who could make me forget Tessa, <em>but you are the exception<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who the fudge was controlling my mouth?<\/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>twice as much poop she\u2019s one queenly lady brother was not happy he\u2019s definitely dodgy but you are the exception Tune in next time part 915 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I always trust my instincts, and things usually work out well. There are times, though, when I land in a world of [&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":[91,279,305,403],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-dance","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","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=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}