{"id":3083,"date":"2015-08-03T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:08:40","slug":"john-reared-from-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/john-reared-from-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"John Reared From the Water"},"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\" \/>&#8212; however bad a person you may think I am &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>place on 53rd Street<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I tried to save her,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the child&#8217;s umbrella<\/li>\n<li>something from a Mary Shelley nightmare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 4<\/strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John reared from the water like <em>something from a Mary Shelley nightmare<\/em>, with a harpoon instead of\u00a0the usual lightning rod. He waved the thing over his head like <em>the child&#8217;s umbrella<\/em> he stole in our first caper together, then flung it at the receding zodiac. Or maybe he was aiming for Tessa&#8217;s back. In either case, he missed. The harpoon lanced into the waves and struck bottom, then stood there quivering in the flashing neon\u00a0and surf.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I tried to save her,&#8221;<\/em> John muttered, &#8220;from you and from herself. And this is the thanks I get?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s going to the <em>place on 53rd Street<\/em>,&#8221; I said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t let her get there John <em>&#8212; however bad a person you may think I am &#8212;<\/em> you can&#8217;t let her. You know how much trouble we&#8217;ll both be in if she gets her hands on it! How much trouble the world will be in!&#8221;<\/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>&#8212; however bad a person you may think I am &#8212; place on 53rd Street &#8220;I tried to save her,&#8221; the child&#8217;s umbrella something from a Mary Shelley nightmare Tune In Next Time Part 4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments John reared [&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":[91,215,403],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-foe","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","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=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}