{"id":4824,"date":"2017-05-17T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2017-05-16T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:44:04","slug":"i-hated-to-turn-setsuko-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-hated-to-turn-setsuko-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hated To Turn Setsuko Down"},"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\" \/>lent a peculiar charm to his physiognomy<\/li>\n<li>we just broke the internet<\/li>\n<li>my knees drawn up to my chin<\/li>\n<li>an almost unearthly air of wild anxiety<\/li>\n<li>my limbs were refusing to perform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 180\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>I hated to turn Setsuko down, even with so many good reasons. Not least of which being my total befuddlement as to the role anything I was looking at might play in lovemaking.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there was the preternatural quiet all around us, which I knew only too well was the sound ninjas make. I glanced around, seeing no ninjas. Damn, just as I feared. By the time I turned back to Setsuko she was dressed again, now in a new outfit that hid her lovely curves. It made her look masculine, like a slender boy whose high cheekbones <em>lent a peculiar charm to his physiognomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think <em>we just broke the internet<\/em>,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t understand, but following Setsuko&#8217;s nod I saw dozens of teenagers standing at the alley&#8217;s mouth, aiming their phones at us. Oh well, I thought, can&#8217;t be any worse than the Vine John posted of me trying to tap dance with <em>my knees drawn up to my chin<\/em>. Tessa and I used to make a lot of bets. Winning or losing hardly mattered to us, we only cared about <em>an almost unearthly air of wild anxiety<\/em> that imbues each wagering moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not forget about the ninjas,&#8221; I whispered to Setsuko. The words had not completed the journey from my lips to her ear when I felt the sting of a blowdart. And suddenly it was every bit as bad as that tap-dance Vine, because just like back then <em>my limbs were refusing to perform<\/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>lent a peculiar charm to his physiognomy we just broke the internet my knees drawn up to my chin an almost unearthly air of wild anxiety my limbs were refusing to perform Tune in next time part 180\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments [&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":[310,91,116,403],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-blowgun","tag-bonus-points","tag-ninja","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}