{"id":3200,"date":"2015-09-14T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:29:04","slug":"i-led-tessa-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-led-tessa-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"I Led Tessa Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\"><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\" \/><\/a>Character &#8211; Harajuku girl<\/li>\n<li>Setting &#8211; behind the wheel of a large automobile<\/li>\n<li>Object &#8211; keys<\/li>\n<li>Situation &#8211; hiccups<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 12<\/strong><b>\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>I led Tessa outside and balanced her on the handlebars of my stolen bicycle as I pedaled through the dark city to the self-storage facility where my excavation machine was stored, along with the rest of my inventions. Things were improving between us, but I didn&#8217;t fully trust Tessa.\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t imagine letting her get a look at the contents of my storage unit, so I left her in the office, talking to the night manager, a\u00a0Japanese woman with bright pink hair, cat ears and a parasol.<\/p>\n<p>The submersible digging machine was far too bulky to carry on the bike, so when I hurried back to the office I asked Michiko if I could borrow her car. She charged me $200 and tossed me the keys. Tessa hadn&#8217;t run off during my brief absence, which both pleased and frightened me. The two of us climbed into Michiko&#8217;s Hello Kitty-bedazzled Lincoln Continental, me behind the wheel, Tessa riding shotgun but twisted around to stare at the mechanical wonder in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>As I navigated back to the pier, Tessa gave a loud hiccup, and then another. She turned around to face front and hiccuped again. I knew those hiccups well. Tessa always had an attack when she was horny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now&#8217;s not a good time, babe,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I &#8212; hic &#8212; know,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that only makes it &#8212; hic &#8212; worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About 4 Elements Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/about-4-elements-prompts\/\">about 4 elements writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Writing Prompt Generator\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/writing-prompt-generator\/\">4 elements\u00a0writing prompt generator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character &#8211; Harajuku girl Setting &#8211; behind the wheel of a large automobile Object &#8211; keys Situation &#8211; hiccups Tune In Next Time Part 12\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments I led Tessa outside and balanced her on the handlebars of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,4],"tags":[385,403],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-elements-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-car","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}