{"id":3501,"date":"2016-01-20T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:51:51","slug":"youre-not-going-to-fall-for-that-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/youre-not-going-to-fall-for-that-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You&#8217;re Not Going to Fall For That, Are You?&#8221;"},"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\" \/>with a purposeful grimace<\/li>\n<li>going off one after the other<\/li>\n<li>played some all-night poker games<\/li>\n<li>also called &#8220;blood sugar&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>if the plane crash hadn&#8217;t killed him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 43<\/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>&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to fall for that, are you?&#8221; I asked Lyudmila. She kept glancing back and forth between us, her initial shock and confusion replaced <em>with a purposeful grimace<\/em>. &#8220;Come on,&#8221; I said, &#8220;listen to him. He&#8217;s the one lisping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That proovthe nothing,&#8221; Jason retorted. &#8220;We&#8217;re twinnth! We both lithp!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not lisping now,&#8221; I pointed out. That Lyudmila was still struggling with the situation had alarm bells in my head <em>going off one after the other<\/em>. In sunnier times I&#8217;d <em>played some all-night poker games<\/em> with her, so I knew it was hopeless trying to read her expressions. Jason knew it too, which was why he still wore his malevolent grin.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe those card games held the key to convincing her, though. Jason knew about the games, and had probably memorized a tally of who&#8217;d won every pot, but perhaps his sources hadn&#8217;t explained to him the peculiar house rule of jacks-over-queens, <em>also called &#8220;blood sugar&#8221;<\/em> or &#8220;sang-sucre,&#8221; that had wrecked so many of her full houses\u00a0through the years. Still, she was always the winningest player at the table.<\/p>\n<p>Before I could offer a poker-related anecdote that would confirm my identity, we were interrupted by a shadowy figure. &#8220;All of you, into the basement. There&#8217;s no time to waste,&#8221; said the familiar, grizzled voice. In silhouette, he could clearly be seen to be missing his left arm. Things were more confusing than ever. It was our great-uncle Jinx Damocles, whose presence in a church would have been surprising even <em>if the plane crash hadn&#8217;t killed him<\/em>.<\/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>with a purposeful grimace going off one after the other played some all-night poker games also called &#8220;blood sugar&#8221; if the plane crash hadn&#8217;t killed him Tune In Next Time Part 43\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to fall [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","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=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}