{"id":3279,"date":"2015-10-21T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2015-10-19T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T02:22:27","slug":"edwina-has-a-tendency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/edwina-has-a-tendency\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwina Has a Tendency"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"k-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>I want to kiss you but I can\u2019t<\/li>\n<li>with the books and the plants<\/li>\n<li>to curse and get nasty<\/li>\n<li>I lit her cigarette<\/li>\n<li>hid myself therein for many, many months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edwina has a tendency <em>to curse and get nasty<\/em> when she hasn&#8217;t had a fix, so <em>I lit her cigarette<\/em> as quickly as possible. She took a long drag before muttering around the tube of putrid death pinched squarely in the center of her lips, &#8220;<em>I want to kiss you but I can&#8217;t<\/em> take this coffin nail out of my mouth.&#8221; Another lengthy drag and half of the cigarette was drooping ashes. &#8220;So you&#8217;ll have to wait,&#8221; she added, her words emerging in a gray plume that scattered flakes of ash into my face. I forgave her. Poor thing\u00a0hadn&#8217;t had a smoke in almost a year. Her father kept her locked away in the conservatory <em>with the books and the plants<\/em>. Meanwhile, I nearly got caught sneaking around the grounds. I dashed to the cabana and <em>hid myself therein for many, many months<\/em>\u00a0until the seasons turned and Edwina&#8217;s parents stopped using the pool so much and I could finally join her indoors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>I want to kiss you but I can\u2019t with the books and the plants to curse and get nasty I lit her cigarette hid myself therein for many, many months Edwina has a tendency to curse and get nasty when she hasn&#8217;t had a fix, so I lit her cigarette as quickly as possible. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[331,347],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-parent","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}