{"id":2538,"date":"2014-12-10T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:06:37","slug":"as-i-lay-here-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/as-i-lay-here-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"As I Lay Here With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>dark thorn stuck in the skin<\/li>\n<li>and there he lay for eighteen months<\/li>\n<li>It was fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI mean, obviously.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>as I lay here with you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kent&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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;<em>As I lay here with you<\/em>, I think of him. Not just his physical aspect, warmth and solidness, but his humor and his regrets. So I wonder about your regrets. We began as colleagues, and bonded over the riddle of the <em>dark thorn stuck in the skin<\/em> of a quarantined banana. <em>It was fascinating.<\/em> We ruled out every known kind of plant that produces thorns, so in the end we failed to determine whether this one might be dangerous, or deduce anything useful about where those bananas had been. But researching it side-by-side for a year and a half was how you and I\u00a0fused into a single entity. He knew it was happening. He collapsed on the sofa the first night, sobbing, <em>and there he lay for eighteen months<\/em>. One day he was gone. I hear that now he only eats bananas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I mean, obviously.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jen&#8217;s Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><em>As I lay here with you<\/em>,\u00a0I am reminded of a weird, feminist retelling of Sleeping Beauty, where it was the prince who pricked his finger and fell asleep. Instead of a misadventure with a spinning wheel, the prince encountered an enchanted rose bush belonging to a witch. He made a ham-fisted attempt at plucking a bloom for his girlfriend and got jabbed. The\u00a0<em>dark thorn stuck in the skin<\/em>\u00a0of his index finger\u00a0and\u00a0he fell over, unconscious, on the garden path,\u00a0<em>and there he lay for eighteen months<\/em>\u00a0until he was awakened by a kiss from the valiant female gardener.\u00a0<em>It was fascinating.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I mean, obviously.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Jacinda smiled. &#8220;That&#8217;s why you never shut up about it.&#8221;<\/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>dark thorn stuck in the skin and there he lay for eighteen months It was fascinating. \u201cI mean, obviously.\u201d as I lay here with you Kent&#8217;s Take &#8220;As I lay here with you, I think of him. Not just his physical aspect, warmth and solidness, but his humor and his regrets. So I wonder about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[371,348,54,366,88],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-banana","tag-fantasy","tag-kiss","tag-magic","tag-shared-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}