{"id":3277,"date":"2015-10-19T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:31:47","slug":"a-second-woman-in-chefs-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/a-second-woman-in-chefs-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Woman in Chef&#8217;s Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>\u201cLook, Esmerelda!\u201d she whispered.<\/li>\n<li>my angry heart<\/li>\n<li>the fire is slowly dying<\/li>\n<li>vital, sunburnt, carefree<\/li>\n<li>where social graces are never needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 20<\/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>A second woman in chef&#8217;s whites approached the craft services table. The first woman elbowed her and pointed at the <em>vital, sunburnt, carefree<\/em> Tyler as he cavorted around the beach naked. <em>&#8220;Look, Esmerelda!&#8221; she whispered.<\/em>\u00a0A movie set seems to be a place <em>where social graces are never needed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While the two of them ogled the actor, I cast my eyes back out to the zodiac bobbing in the waves near the pier. Tessa had double crossed me so many times in the past 24 hours I wasn&#8217;t sure\u00a0I could ever trust her again. The woman was maddening, and for years I carried\u00a0an inferno of passion for her in <em>my angry heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s cast her lot with John now,&#8221; I said to myself, &#8220;and in my heart\u00a0<em>the fire is slowly dying<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I shook the metal box, hoping to divine its contents, but the sloshing rattle gave me nothing to go on. I stared at the lock, remembering that Tessa alone knew the combination.<\/p>\n<p>Out on the sea, the ominous fins were circling ever closer to the zodiac and its lone passenger.<\/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>\u201cLook, Esmerelda!\u201d she whispered. my angry heart the fire is slowly dying vital, sunburnt, carefree where social graces are never needed Tune In Next Time Part 20\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments A second woman in chef&#8217;s whites approached the craft services [&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":[255,373,369,403],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-actor","tag-shark","tag-thriller","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}