{"id":10238,"date":"2024-08-07T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:22:29","slug":"hold-on-hold-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/hold-on-hold-on\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hold On, Hold On&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>fashion vigilantes, out for blood<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s how mad I\u2019d be.<\/li>\n<li>glimpses of other people\u2019s secrets<\/li>\n<li>kestrel flying over Deptford gasworks<\/li>\n<li>the so-called \u201cLaw of Urination\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 924 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hold on, hold on,&#8221; I said to the salamanders. &#8220;There&#8217;s already too much going in inside me, with the nanobots and all, so I&#8217;ll thank you not to throw any mystery pharmaceuticals into the mix right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wife-a-mander said to the other one, &#8220;With the pill in his mouth, he wouldn&#8217;t be able to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir,&#8221; said the hubby-mander, &#8220;those nanobots are exactly why you need the pill. It will put them into sleep mode to buy us time to help you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Help me? The very idea had never occurred to me, that maybe they weren&#8217;t enemies. I figured they had to be <em>fashion vigilantes, out for blood<\/em> over my bold innovations. It had already crossed my mind that they might be spouses not of each other but of some of my many romantic partners. It still wasn&#8217;t clear to me why they were salamanders. Maybe they were so mad about the infidelities that this happened. <em>That&#8217;s how mad I&#8217;d be.<\/em> Except, Fleur and I had an arrangement, and it was usually me stepping out. So on second thought, I couldn&#8217;t imagine being angry enough over it to go full-amphibian.<\/p>\n<p>The pill was in my mouth. I had no idea how it got there, and before I could spit it out there was a glass of water and I was swallowing.<\/p>\n<p>The wife-a-mander sighed. &#8220;This is so much hassle just for a few <em>glimpses of other people&#8217;s secrets<\/em>. Better to be a <em>kestrel flying over Deptford gasworks<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That had to be a Colloquialism, but it wasn&#8217;t one I knew. The pill started kicking in, and it was definitely going to put me into sleep mode whether it affected the nanobots or not. The last thing I heard was the hubby-mander using another local expression, this one about <em>the so-called &#8220;Law of Urination&#8221;<\/em> and what it meant for my situation.<\/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>fashion vigilantes, out for blood That\u2019s how mad I\u2019d be. glimpses of other people\u2019s secrets kestrel flying over Deptford gasworks the so-called \u201cLaw of Urination\u201d Tune in next time part 924 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Hold on, hold on,&#8221; I said to the salamanders. &#8220;There&#8217;s already too much going in inside me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,403],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}