{"id":2285,"date":"2014-06-18T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2014-06-08T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:39:49","slug":"not-in-a-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/not-in-a-million-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in a million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" alt=\"k-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>&#8220;Get on the floor!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>He had used knives before<\/li>\n<li>not in a million years<\/li>\n<li>chittering, twittering sounds<\/li>\n<li>a distinctly squashlike appearance<\/li>\n<li>sucked up the liquified flesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Not in a million years<\/em> would Melvin have guessed that the <em>chittering, twittering sounds<\/em> originated from a creature having such <em>a distinctly squashlike appearance<\/em>. He took a step toward it and it suddenly reared up and barked, <em>&#8220;Get on the floor!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then Melvin understood that this was a plontworb, and his life was in danger. The creatures had overrun the lower decks and fed on most of Engineering. They killed with a jet of caustic digestive fluids that turned their prey into puddles, and then <em>sucked up the liquified flesh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But he knew they had weak spots, if he could only locate a weapon. <em>He had used knives before<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get on the floor!&#8221; He had used knives before not in a million years chittering, twittering sounds a distinctly squashlike appearance sucked up the liquified flesh Not in a million years would Melvin have guessed that the chittering, twittering sounds originated from a creature having such a distinctly squashlike appearance. He took a step toward [&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],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}