{"id":4839,"date":"2017-05-24T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2017-05-22T22:31:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T02:31:01","slug":"the-good-news-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-good-news-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good News Was"},"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\" \/>girls who danced in this cafe<\/li>\n<li>grandfather placed everything in the trash can barrel<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThat could be anybody.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>the fervency of a small child when he really, really wants something<\/li>\n<li>a metal chain, gold colored<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 182\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>The good news was that I was finally leaving Valentine Village. Also, I would at last get to change out of my itchy, restrictive lace jumpsuit and borrowed underwear.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the news was bad. Mother had me trapped in the back of a windowless van, headed for the airport and a destination she wouldn&#8217;t reveal. Her comment about photographers felt like a hint, the kind of game she liked to play.<\/p>\n<p>My new clothing was, dammit, another jumpsuit. But it was the proper size and made of\u00a0black corduroy, and\u00a0infinitely more comfortable than the previous one. Mother insisted I also wear <em>a metal chain, gold colored<\/em>, and saddle shoes. I protested with <em>the fervency of a small child when he really, really wants something<\/em>, or in this case really, really doesn&#8217;t want it, but she was implacable.<\/p>\n<p>The van slowed as I tied my shoes. I heard a plane taking off. Mother&#8217;s flunky shut off the engine and came back to open the cargo doors, and I saw that we weren&#8217;t technically at the airport. We were at one of the seedy strip malls across the highway from it. Most of the storefronts were gentlemen&#8217;s clubs. Strip mall, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Mother tucked her hair up under a\u00a0backwards ball cap, and put on dark glasses even though it was after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, ain&#8217;t that the president&#8217;s mom?&#8221; called a loud voice across the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>His companion shook his head, teetering drunkenly. <em>&#8220;That could be anybody.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was ushered into the nearest club, a surprisingly wholesome establishment. It was what you&#8217;d get if you started with a regular strip club, but then your g<em>randfather placed everything in the trash can barrel<\/em> unless it was somehow breakfast-themed, and he kept doing that through seven renovations of your club. Even the <em>girls who danced in this cafe<\/em> were clean and bright as dawn&#8217;s first rays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coffee?&#8221; asked a dancing waitress in a Gingham thong.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse 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>girls who danced in this cafe grandfather placed everything in the trash can barrel \u201cThat could be anybody.\u201d the fervency of a small child when he really, really wants something a metal chain, gold colored Tune in next time part 182\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here [&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":[91,39,403],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-coffee","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}