{"id":3412,"date":"2015-12-30T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:45:10","slug":"the-body-of-water-mother-was-pointing-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-body-of-water-mother-was-pointing-at\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body of Water Mother Was Pointing At"},"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\" \/>other worker won employee of the month<\/li>\n<li>please put your hood back on<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;re trying to make our own luck<\/li>\n<li>bedeck me in the other world<\/li>\n<li>posted images of a coded note card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 37<\/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>The body of water Mother was pointing at was officially known as the Sea of Imbroglio, which was the nearest my father would ever come to a memorial. It formed in the same cataclysmic events that expanded and merged the Great Lakes, eradicated Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and took Father&#8217;s life. Mother wept at its mere mention. Now it was to be the staging ground for her\u00a0next big scheme?<\/p>\n<p>The truth struck me like a jai-alai serve to the head. This wasn&#8217;t Mother, it was her twin sister, Aunt Z\u00fcg! That was why she failed to recognize Freya or me. I squinted at Freya, trying to read her awareness of the ruse. Without the sitting president to back my play, it was too risky calling out Aunt Z\u00fcg&#8217;s deception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tessa, darling,&#8221; the ersatz Ambassador to South Dakota said, &#8220;have you seen Jason&#8217;s brother at all lately? I promised him to Jorgensen when this is all over.&#8221; Tessa shook her head. &#8220;I see. Now, <em>please put your hood back on<\/em>. Listen up, all of you. The recipe for revolution is three parts chance and two parts ideology, and <em>we&#8217;re trying to make our own luck<\/em>. None of us can afford to slouch like some <em>other worker won employee of the month<\/em>. It&#8217;s no use crying, &#8216;Let them <em>bedeck me in the other world<\/em> with ribbons and medals,&#8217; for it&#8217;s in this world that the Ambassador to North Dakota <em>posted images of a coded note card<\/em> showing, we believe, the only weakness in his citadel&#8217;s defenses. It&#8217;s these ninjas and pirates whose alliance we must exploit. And it&#8217;s the precious treasure brought to us by Tessa &#8212; please lower your hood now &#8212; that makes it all possible!&#8221;<\/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>other worker won employee of the month please put your hood back on we&#8217;re trying to make our own luck bedeck me in the other world posted images of a coded note card Tune In Next Time Part 37\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for [&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":[390,419,403],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-ambassador","tag-mother","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","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=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}