{"id":4510,"date":"2017-01-04T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2017-01-01T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:25:37","slug":"every-man-has-at-some-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/every-man-has-at-some-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Man Has At Some Point"},"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=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>asked to draw a map<\/li>\n<li>the worst a beautiful woman could do<\/li>\n<li>squeezed his head and arms<\/li>\n<li>their gestures of greeting<\/li>\n<li>never, ever name your daughter after that woman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 142\u00a0<\/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>Every man has at some point been <em>asked to draw a map<\/em> of his fears, where X marks <em>the worst a beautiful woman could do<\/em>\u00a0to him. Usually it&#8217;s something about betrayal or abandonment, hardly ever has anything to do with harpoon guns. I\u00a0didn&#8217;t think I had much to worry about this time, though. The glass of the aquarium would surely stop a harpoon. But then I looked at the tip of her weapon, and realized it wasn&#8217;t the typical sharp prong but a chunky explosive warhead.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I could think for the Headmistress to turn on me like that was if I&#8217;d somehow garbled the message. I had to try a different code. Grabbing the rude teen beside me, I <em>squeezed his head and arms<\/em> into the shapes of various ancient runes. The Headmistress aimed her harpoon gun at me, but only lazily. She was giving me a chance. Meanwhile, the rest of the schoolboys were now treating me like a hip-hop star, leading me to wonder if they mistook me for my brother Jason. In any case, <em>their gestures of greeting<\/em> were elaborate handshakes that interfered with the transmission of my new message.<\/p>\n<p>The Headmistress lost patience with me and fired. I threw my human runic semaphore stylus one way and leapt the other, as the window burst out at us in a surge of brackish water. The Headmistress rode the outflow and landed adroitly on her flippered feet, now brandishing a knife. She tore off her mask and shook out her wavy black hair.<\/p>\n<p>It was the American ambassador, my date to the prom. Myxolemia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What should we do?&#8221; whined one of the soggy teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have only one piece of advice,&#8221; I replied. &#8220;You should <em>never, ever name your daughter after that woman<\/em>.&#8221;<\/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>asked to draw a map the worst a beautiful woman could do squeezed his head and arms their gestures of greeting never, ever name your daughter after that woman Tune in next time part 142\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Every man has [&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":[91,401,469,403],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-harpoon","tag-scuba","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}