{"id":3544,"date":"2016-02-10T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:53:36","slug":"you-see-there-are-three-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/you-see-there-are-three-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You See There Are Three of Us&#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\" \/>after tonight there will be four<\/li>\n<li>baby, I won&#8217;t joke with you<\/li>\n<li>check the gun room<\/li>\n<li>keeping Enzo from whispering sweet nothings<\/li>\n<li>&#8212; and those crocodiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 49<\/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 see there are three of us,&#8221; Oscar said, gesturing with his chin at the men flanking me. &#8220;<em>After tonight there will be four<\/em>. You will be called back. Recycled. Pensacola will be remembered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Baby, I won&#8217;t joke with you<\/em>,&#8221; I replied. &#8220;I can&#8217;t come back. Much as I want to.&#8221; My only chance was to confuse them. &#8220;You know Pensacola couldn&#8217;t be helped. Florida dumpsters, man. Alligators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those were American crocs, you ignoramus!&#8221; Oscar hissed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know, sorry. I got confused. You know that&#8217;s how I am. Why I forgot to <em>check the gun room<\/em> before my run that night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other two garbagemen muttered behind me, and I realized I knew them. I had met them in Milan. Oscar glared at Alonzo, <em>keeping Enzo from whispering sweet nothings<\/em> in his ear. They were becoming distracted, which was what I wanted, but now I had become intrigued. Italian scab sanitation workers posing as union muscle? It couldn&#8217;t be a coincidence that the Pensacola debacle was being dredged up after all this time <em>&#8212; and those crocodiles<\/em>&#8230;<\/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>after tonight there will be four baby, I won&#8217;t joke with you check the gun room keeping Enzo from whispering sweet nothings &#8212; and those crocodiles Tune In Next Time Part 49\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;You see there are three [&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-3544","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\/3544","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=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}