{"id":3784,"date":"2016-05-23T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2016-11-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:30:00","slug":"the-growl-came-from-a-human-throat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-growl-came-from-a-human-throat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growl Came From a Human Throat"},"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\" \/>Anais Nin isn&#8217;t enough of a clue<\/li>\n<li>as men do who are stalking man<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One cannot always be love-making.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>is engaged to be married<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like to be alone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part\u00a078<\/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 growl came from a human throat, which made it much more intimidating. Animals can be reasoned with.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly hands clapped over my eyes and my feral companion said, &#8220;Guess who!&#8221; in a familiar, smoky female voice. &#8220;I&#8217;ll give one hint,&#8221; she purred with a German\u00a0accent.\u00a0&#8220;I am not Anais Nin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0had her identity narrowed down to two. Depending on which of the German\u00a0sisters she was, my night was about to get very lucky or very unlucky. &#8220;Merely eliminating <em>Anais Nin isn&#8217;t enough of a clue,<\/em>&#8221; I said. &#8220;You have to give me more to go on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her icy fingertips massaged my eyeballs through the lids. &#8220;I can tell you apart from Jason in the same way<em> as men do who are stalking man<\/em> &#8212; through your scent and through the shape of your corneas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ulrike,&#8221; I breathed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it is me!&#8221; She released her grip on my face and bounded over the back of the bench to sit beside me. &#8220;I have missed you darling,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought you were keeping yourself busy with John,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One cannot always be love-making.&#8221;<\/em> She eyed\u00a0my crotch and I felt that familiar mix of fear and desire that I always felt around Ulrike.\u00a0&#8220;And anyway, John <em>is engaged to be married<\/em> to Tessa now, and <em>I don&#8217;t like to be alone<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She took me by the hand and led me toward my doom.<\/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>Anais Nin isn&#8217;t enough of a clue as men do who are stalking man &#8220;One cannot always be love-making.&#8221; is engaged to be married I don&#8217;t like to be alone Tune in next time part\u00a078\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier Installments The growl [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-3784","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\/3784","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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}