{"id":4797,"date":"2017-05-03T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:37:24","slug":"wait-i-exclaimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wait-i-exclaimed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wait,&#8221; I Exclaimed"},"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\" \/>make sure to never do it with a singer<\/li>\n<li>conspicuous because of its size<\/li>\n<li>my brain got heated<\/li>\n<li>right after she cut off all her hair<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDon\u2019t you think I want you to?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 176\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;Wait,&#8221; I exclaimed, &#8220;you don&#8217;t know the whole story!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know more than you,&#8221; Jenkins spat back, inserting that one coherent phrase seamlessly into the cascade of incomprehensibly inventive obscenities. Jenkins had flow. Jason might have stood a chance against her in a rap battle, but not me. Sailors get all the props, but if you decide to get into a swearing contest, take my advice and <em>make sure to never do it with a singer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She advanced on me like an army brigade. I gulped. The only person I&#8217;d ever seen take Jenkins on and win was Joan. I retreated, my ankles brushing tangled Tessa-bot wreckage. When I glanced down, one exposed component was <em>conspicuous because of its size<\/em>. It told me two things that I was happy to know.<\/p>\n<p>I stooped and grabbed the robot guts. Jenkins sprang at me. I hit a button on the side of the immense capacitor, and electric current arced out, intercepting Jenkins in mid-air. She thudded to the sidewalk, twitching, eyes bugging out.<\/p>\n<p>That was the first thing. The other thing it told me concerned the bot&#8217;s origins. <em>My brain got heated<\/em> with the effort of remembering how I&#8217;d obtained the parts I needed when I invented the underwater digging machine. Because the logo on this capacitor matched the ones I received. It was after Tessa lost our first bet, which meant it was <em>right after she cut off all her hair<\/em>. But who was the supplier?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bravo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whirling around, I saw Setsuko. I gulped again. The capacitor was drained now, useless. But maybe she didn&#8217;t know that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop there,&#8221; I barked, &#8220;or I&#8217;ll zap you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She took another step, purring, <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you think I want you to?&#8221;<\/em><\/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>make sure to never do it with a singer conspicuous because of its size my brain got heated right after she cut off all her hair \u201cDon\u2019t you think I want you to?\u201d Tune in next time part 176\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-4797","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\/4797","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=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}