{"id":4896,"date":"2017-06-21T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T01:45:19","slug":"the-brontosaurus-had-been-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-brontosaurus-had-been-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brontosaurus Had Been Growing"},"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\" \/>didn&#8217;t want to waste the batteries<\/li>\n<li>almost super-human tolerance<\/li>\n<li>even if the word \u201cSurgery\u201d had not been inscribed<\/li>\n<li>dive into the unknown<\/li>\n<li>the long-legged Englishman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 190\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 Brontosaurus had been growing for as long as I could remember, becoming more ponderous and complicated all the time. It reached a point where I no longer considered Mother&#8217;s ambitions much of a danger to the world at large, simply because there was no way such a tangled mess of a plan could ever succeed.<\/p>\n<p>But, what if? What if the Brontosaurus\u00a0was a distraction from her real initiatives? It would explain so much. Were all of her obsessions mere pantomime, or did she really feel that way about <em>the long-legged Englishman<\/em> who cleaned the pool? He had an <em>almost super-human tolerance<\/em> for chlorine, which could qualify him for certain kinds of clandestine missions.<\/p>\n<p>I had to escape this alley and its rats. I had to find Tessa and warn her, before Mother found me. I had to do it without my flashlight, which I stupidly stopped carrying with me because I <em>didn&#8217;t want to waste the batteries<\/em>. I started digging through the heaps of charred swimsuits in the dumpster, hoping something more useful had been thrown away. When I got to the bottom of the pile, I saw a pull ring attached to the floor of the dumpster. It had a trapdoor! I decided it was better to <em>dive into the unknown<\/em> below the garbage receptacle than face down the swarming rodents outside it.<\/p>\n<p>Especially after I stole Yoda&#8217;s flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>The stairs curved and twisted, descending for what felt like miles. Finally I stood at a door. I knew where I was, and it chilled me. I would have known <em>even if the word &#8220;Surgery&#8221; had not been inscribed<\/em> on the knob, even if the plaque beside it didn&#8217;t say &#8220;Rocketry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I swallowed hard, and rang the doorbell.<\/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>didn&#8217;t want to waste the batteries almost super-human tolerance even if the word \u201cSurgery\u201d had not been inscribed dive into the unknown the long-legged Englishman Tune in next time part 190\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The Brontosaurus had been growing for as [&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":[403],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","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=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}