{"id":3121,"date":"2015-08-17T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:23:26","slug":"at-that-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/at-that-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"At That Moment"},"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\" \/>do not leave a trace<\/li>\n<li>the best-looking guy in the room<\/li>\n<li>the adults took turns<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;That was a game, wasn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I know you&#8217;re part Indian!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 8<\/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>At that moment Tessa&#8217;s eyes rolled back and she slumped to the floor, the giraffe-hide briefcase slipping from her grip. She should have remembered that I&#8217;m quite partial to contact-tranquilizers\u00a0(especially the kinds that <em>do not leave a trace<\/em> on a tox screen), and always smeared them liberally on the handles of all of my briefcases.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled a pair of soggy gloves from my pocket and wrung the seawater out of them. I may not be <em>the best-looking guy in the room<\/em>, but I&#8217;m usually the cleverest. When I was\u00a0young and the only child in the cult,<em>\u00a0the adults took turns<\/em> teaching me the many skills they used to evade the authorities. No matter how challenging the lesson I always laughed and said, <em>&#8220;That was a game, wasn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/em> That attitude got me far in life.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about me.<\/p>\n<p>John still stood just inside the doorway, eyeing Tessa on the floor. Or, more likely, eyeing the briefcase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t let you have it,&#8221; he said without looking at me. &#8220;<em>I know you&#8217;re part Indian!<\/em>\u00a0I know you&#8217;ll sell it to your cohorts back in Mumbai!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I chuckled at his total misapprehension of my motives, and that&#8217;s when he pounced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in 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>do not leave a trace the best-looking guy in the room the adults took turns &#8220;That was a game, wasn&#8217;t it?&#8221; I know you&#8217;re part Indian! Tune In Next Time Part 8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments At that moment Tessa&#8217;s eyes [&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":[91,295,352,403],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-foreign-lands","tag-poison","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}