{"id":3675,"date":"2016-04-04T07:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2016-11-09T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:22:39","slug":"aphrodite-smiled-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/aphrodite-smiled-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite Snarled At Me"},"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\" \/>me, I want a hula hoop<\/li>\n<li>I consider you a rascal<\/li>\n<li>burn the air you breathe<\/li>\n<li>live long enough to get into space<\/li>\n<li>without a hug and kiss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 64<\/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>Aphrodite snarled at <em>me, &#8220;I want a hula hoop<\/em>&#8216;s width between you and Svetlana.&#8221; She gestured with her gun. &#8220;No more, no less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t want me to help Svetlana, who was still being throttled by Heinrich, but if I moved too far away she wouldn&#8217;t be able to monitor both of us with her single eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I consider you a rascal<\/em>,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;not a great threat. I will deal with you once the contortionist bitch is no more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Svetlana writhed beneath her former lover\/sherpa, her lips\u00a0a blue grimace, her eyes wide and angry.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich&#8217;s grip faltered and Svetlana drew a gasping breath. While Aphrodite was distracted by that I raised my hand and plucked a jellyfish from my hair. During my years developing the underwater excavation machine I had developed an immunity to jellyfish stings. I was counting on that not being the case for my captors. I flung the gelatinous creature at Aphrodite&#8217;s face, hoping to temporarily blind her, but my aim was off and it landed in her mouth just as she inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>I knew from sad experience that man-o-war venom in your esophagus will <em>burn the air you breathe<\/em>, turning your lungs to fire, and making you doubt whether you will <em>live long enough to get into space<\/em>s not built of agony. In other words, it was an effective distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Aphrodite&#8217;s gun clattered to the floor and she soon followed it, gagging and coughing and clawing at her mouth. She drew Heinrich&#8217;s attention long enough for Svetlana to break free and somersault out of reach, gasping.<\/p>\n<p>Should I take my chances and team up with Svetlana, or\u00a0leave now, <em>without a hug, and kiss<\/em> my ass goodbye?<\/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>me, I want a hula hoop I consider you a rascal burn the air you breathe live long enough to get into space without a hug and kiss Tune in next time part 64\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments Aphrodite snarled at [&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":[335,91,119,403],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-bonus-points","tag-gun","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}