{"id":3064,"date":"2015-07-27T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:06:27","slug":"i-dragged-myself-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-dragged-myself-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dragged Myself Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><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\" \/>light pollution works in your favor<\/li>\n<li>took a lengthened pull at the exhilarating liquid<\/li>\n<li>recognize these assholes out in the wild<\/li>\n<li>maps, engraving, money, photos, stamps<\/li>\n<li>with slowness immeasurable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I dragged myself backwards\u00a0toward shore <em>with slowness immeasurable<\/em>, the cinderblocks chained to my ankles digging deep into the sandy ocean floor. The zodiac lurched forward with John in the bow, brandishing the harpoon. Tessa giggled maniacally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Run for it!&#8221; she shrieked again, mocking me, then guffawed.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the pilings I tried to find a shadow to hide in, but the boardwalk was awash with blinking neon and apparently<em> light pollution works in your favor<\/em> when you&#8217;re a psychopath. Tessa steered the boat straight at me and <em>took a lengthened pull at\u00a0the exhilarating liquid<\/em> in the flask she kept tucked in her ample cleavage.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of everything that had been in the safe: <em>maps, engraving, money, photos, stamps<\/em>, diamonds &#8212; John had all of it now. John and Tessa.<\/p>\n<p>If I survived the night I&#8217;d need to learn to <em>recognize these assholes out in the wild<\/em>, save myself the trouble of partnering up with them. Or worse, falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>The harpoon was mere feet from my chest when suddenly Tessa yanked hard on the tiller and John toppled into the sea with a salty splash.<\/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>light pollution works in your favor took a lengthened pull at the exhilarating liquid recognize these assholes out in the wild maps, engraving, money, photos, stamps with slowness immeasurable Tune In Next Time Part 3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I dragged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[402,357,401,403],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-betrayal","tag-boat","tag-harpoon","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}