{"id":2555,"date":"2015-12-23T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2014-12-06T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:44:47","slug":"holiday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/holiday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Dozes &#8211; Holiday Prompt"},"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\" \/>she didn&#8217;t see me creep<\/li>\n<li>blink a bright red and green<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be back again some day<\/li>\n<li>we can hardly stand the wait<\/li>\n<li>a bowl full of jelly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mom dozes in her recliner, the television screen flooding her and the rest of the room with a greenish glow and whitish noise from the football game. She always falls asleep during halftime, which is why I waited until the third quarter to make my move, so <em>she didn&#8217;t see me creep<\/em> down the stairs and out the back door. In my backpack are all the supplies I think\u00a0I will need, and on my way through the kitchen I grab\u00a0the only food in the house, <em>a bowl full of jelly<\/em> beans. Although I&#8217;m desperate to start my new life far away from this place and that woman, I know with depressing certainty that <em>I&#8217;ll be back again some day<\/em>. Leaving the televised crowd noise behind, I hear tree frogs and night bugs. I see no one, but the chilly air amplifies the shivers I&#8217;ve been experiencing since I decided it was time to strike off on my own, and in my imagination eyes watch me from every shadow, feral slit-pupil eyes that <em>blink a bright red and green<\/em>. To distract myself, I slide the postcard out of my pocket and reread it in the hard beam of my flashlight: &#8220;<em>We can hardly stand the wait<\/em>!&#8221; The words of welcome dispel some of the shivers, and remind me that I&#8217;m\u00a0doing the right thing, leaving the only home I have ever known.\u00a0I flip the postcard over to see the university&#8217;s motto flying over an aerial shot of the campus. Yes, sophomore year was a good time to run away.<\/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>she didn&#8217;t see me creep blink a bright red and green I&#8217;ll be back again some day we can hardly stand the wait a bowl full of jelly Mom dozes in her recliner, the television screen flooding her and the rest of the room with a greenish glow and whitish noise from the football game. [&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":[339,283,342,130,331],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-creature","tag-flashlight","tag-food","tag-holiday","tag-parent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}