{"id":1027,"date":"2013-04-15T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2013-12-31T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:16:56","slug":"marita-shuddered-and-closed-her-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/marita-shuddered-and-closed-her-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marita Shuddered and Closed Her Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"by jen\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Character \u2013 alien robot<\/li>\n<li>Setting \u2013 dry dock<\/li>\n<li>Object \u2013 engagement ring<\/li>\n<li>Situation \u2013 scattering ashes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Marita shuddered and closed her eyes. With any luck the horrible cyborg wouldn&#8217;t think to look for her in her hiding spot. A ship in dry dock has no need for lifeboats, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity got the better of her, and Marita opened her eyes. Peering through the crack between the boat and its canvas tarp she caught a fleeting glint of sunlight reflecting off the machine&#8217;s shiny blue casing. A second later there was a sharp, electrical noise as the robot fired a blast of energy at the stack of lumber where Lyle was hiding. The wood disappeared in a cloud of ash which quickly scattered in the breeze, exposing Lyle on bended knee, proffering a ring.<\/p>\n<p>Marita watched in amazement as the robot holstered its ray gun and pulled Lyle to his feet. The two of them embraced and walked together to the waiting rocket ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That ring was meant for me!&#8221; Marita grumbled, knowing that she would now need to swear vengeance upon the alien robot and its kind in order to save her dignity.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About 4 Elements Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/about-4-elements-prompts\/\">about 4 elements writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Writing Prompt Generator\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/writing-prompt-generator\/\">handy dandy writing prompt generator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character \u2013 alien robot Setting \u2013 dry dock Object \u2013 engagement ring Situation \u2013 scattering ashes Marita shuddered and closed her eyes. With any luck the horrible cyborg wouldn&#8217;t think to look for her in her hiding spot. A ship in dry dock has no need for lifeboats, after all. Curiosity got the better 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":[318,4],"tags":[305,347,271,178],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-robot","tag-romance","tag-scifi","tag-vengeance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","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=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}