{"id":2520,"date":"2014-12-03T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2014-10-13T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:25:35","slug":"sheets-of-flame-enveloped-every-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/sheets-of-flame-enveloped-every-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheets of Flame Enveloped Every Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\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\" \/>Character \u2013\u00a0pimp<\/li>\n<li>Setting \u2013\u00a0Hell<\/li>\n<li>Object \u2013\u00a0baseball card collection<\/li>\n<li>Situation \u2013\u00a0amnesia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sheets of flame enveloped every surface, including the bubbling black tar of the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember how I got here,\u201d I said to the tall, goat-headed person beside me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s normal,\u201d the demon replied. \u201cWhich is too bad, because the dimensional transit vortex is really bitchin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spinning tunnel of sulfurous lightning? Oh I remember that part,\u201d I said. \u201cI meant in a philosophical sense. As in, what did I do that was so terrible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh!\u201d Goat-Head brayed. \u201cTasty. Existential dread added to the other forms of torment! You\u2019re gonna be a celebrity down here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I can figure it out,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I hope not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see. I stole my sister\u2019s baseball card collection\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a first. But no, that\u2019s not the reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a stable of skanky hos, sold their asses all up and down the north side. And I was looking to expand my territory, which come to think of it is probably what got me killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a loyal customer for years. That\u2019s not it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally? I was sure that would be the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were a businessman. The big guy doesn\u2019t hold that against you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, then what is it? Why did I get sent to Hell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goat-Face grinned. \u201cYou\u2019ll thank me someday for not telling you. Things get a bit monotonous after a century or two, and that question will be all that still interests you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at him. His words made a kind of twisted sense, even if his breath was a roadkilled skunk in late July. \u201cThanks,\u201d I said. \u201cYou\u2019re okay in my book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep your voice down,\u201d he hissed. \u201cIf I get fired from this job, I\u2019ll have to move back in with my mom.\u201d<\/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\u00a0pimp Setting \u2013\u00a0Hell Object \u2013\u00a0baseball card collection Situation \u2013\u00a0amnesia Sheets of flame enveloped every surface, including the bubbling black tar of the river. \u201cI don\u2019t remember how I got here,\u201d I said to the tall, goat-headed person beside me. \u201cThat\u2019s normal,\u201d the demon replied. \u201cWhich is too bad, because the dimensional transit vortex is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[370,264,350],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","tag-demon","tag-prostitute","tag-sister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}