{"id":2901,"date":"2015-05-13T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2015-05-09T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:08:30","slug":"yolanda-hated-mr-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/yolanda-hated-mr-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolanda Hated Mr Wong"},"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\" \/>wounded by betrayal<\/li>\n<li>Mr Wong smiled at her<\/li>\n<li>&#8212; amputation, tongue-cutting, excisions<\/li>\n<li>nothing but a festering rat king of malware<\/li>\n<li>such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yolanda hated Mr Wong. He had no right to look so happy.<\/p>\n<p>It was no surprise to see <em>such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes<\/em>. After all, his cybernetic brain was <em>nothing but a festering rat king of malware<\/em>. She had contemplated ways to fix him, but they all entailed great effort and expense, and he would just download all the same garbage into himself as soon as she booted him up. He was an addict, and he didn&#8217;t want help. Yolanda\u00a0therefore contemplated ways of punishing him <em>&#8212; amputation, tongue-cutting, excisions<\/em> of random chunks of his body &#8212; but these were just idle fantasies, unvented spleen. Really, she was just bitter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr Wong smiled at her<\/em>. Somewhere deep in the fetid sewers of his CPU, he could still appreciate irony. He was a teacher and a scientist, built with lofty aspirations. Yolanda was a sexbot.\u00a0She turned into his nurse, a protracted good deed for which she could be dismantled. They weren&#8217;t supposed to interact. Their arrangement made both of them fugitives, but only she would be in any real danger if they were caught.<\/p>\n<p>Her only choice was to abandon him and hope his incoherence would prevent him from leading anyone back to her. And, hope that happy Mr Wong was too far gone to be <em>wounded by betrayal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse order!<\/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>wounded by betrayal Mr Wong smiled at her &#8212; amputation, tongue-cutting, excisions nothing but a festering rat king of malware such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes Yolanda hated Mr Wong. He had no right to look so happy. It was no surprise to see such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes. After [&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":[91,264,271],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-prostitute","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","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=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}