{"id":4593,"date":"2017-02-08T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2017-02-05T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T21:32:06","slug":"youre-no-son-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/youre-no-son-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re No Son of Mine"},"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\" \/>Hot blood, hot blood.<\/li>\n<li>My stepdaughter vanishes for two nights and returns with an alleged husband.<\/li>\n<li>suggesting that horses had been tied there<\/li>\n<li>hitched up, as it were,<\/li>\n<li>cheer a little less aggressively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 152\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>&#8220;You&#8217;re no son of mine,&#8221; Jinx Damocles wheezed.<\/p>\n<p>The one-armed man in front of me was also the one, armed man in front of me. If paternal warmth wasn&#8217;t going to keep him from shooting me, then I had to find some other angle so he wouldn&#8217;t spill my blood. <em>Hot blood, hot blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not fair,&#8221; I said. &#8220;I was always told you were my uncle. You were the one who always preferred to spend time with Jason over me. Give me a chance before you disown me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It ain&#8217;t like that,&#8221; Jinx said. He sighed raspily. He muttered something that sounded like, &#8220;<em>My stepdaughter vanishes for two nights and returns with an alleged husband.<\/em> Knocked up, of course.&#8221; He focused on me again and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re no son of mine because you&#8217;re my grandson. Well, step-grandson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The train had begun slowing as he spoke, and now I heard the squealing of the brakes as we decelerated more forcefully. &#8220;Out,&#8221; Jinx said.<\/p>\n<p>We were in a field, no station or other signs of civilization in sight. Jinx marched me away from the tracks and the train started moving again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought we were going to TinselTown, or, I guess Valentine Village,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t ever go there again, and I can&#8217;t let you go either.&#8221; He crowed loudly, &#8220;Bleed the Candy Hearts! Bleed the Candy Hearts!&#8221; Then he coughed and spat before shoving me ahead with the gun.<\/p>\n<p>We came to a lone tree among the tall grasses, where there were eight horseshoe imprints within an area of flattened stems, <em>suggesting horses had been tied there<\/em>, <em>hitched up, as it were,<\/em> to the tree in anticipation of our arrival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I scared &#8217;em off,&#8221; Jinx said. &#8220;Next time I&#8217;ll <em>cheer a little less aggressively<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Hot blood, hot blood. My stepdaughter vanishes for two nights and returns with an alleged husband. suggesting that horses had been tied there hitched up, as it were, cheer a little less aggressively Tune in next time part 152\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier [&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-4593","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\/4593","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=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}