{"id":4883,"date":"2017-06-14T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2017-06-10T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:41:04","slug":"mothers-diabolical-machinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/mothers-diabolical-machinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Diabolical Machinations"},"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\" \/>metropolitan police with a difference<\/li>\n<li>I can see I\u2019m not your type<\/li>\n<li>the ice-master caught the first sight<\/li>\n<li>either rented or borrowed a baby<\/li>\n<li>why the hell should I stay awake?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 188\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>Mother&#8217;s diabolical machinations filled my mind so completely that I forgot where I was and what was happening around me. Her agents would be everywhere by now, like <em>metropolitan police with a difference<\/em>: animal cunning.\u00a0I snapped out of it when Yoda tumbled into the dumpster beside me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let go!&#8221; I yelled. He had latched onto my ankles. &#8220;What makes you think you&#8217;re my type? <em>I can see I&#8217;m not your type<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To say is hard, what type you are, hmm? Odd your clothing\u00a0is, shoe-thief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here, take them back.&#8221; I dropped his crocs, which I hadn&#8217;t had time to put on. But he still held onto my ankles. &#8220;What now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Long ago it was, when <em>the ice-master caught the first sight<\/em> of the airport, <em>when either rented or borrowed a baby<\/em> the fire-master did.&#8221; As he spoke, he slipped off my sodden espadrilles and put his crocs on my feet.<\/p>\n<p>Then he burrowed into the scorched bikinis and curled up like a hamster in cedar chips.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that it?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Are you just going to lie there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Done now my job is, so <em>why they hell should I stay awake?<\/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>metropolitan police with a difference I can see I\u2019m not your type the ice-master caught the first sight either rented or borrowed a baby why the hell should I stay awake? Tune in next time part 188\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Mother&#8217;s [&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-4883","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\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}