{"id":5229,"date":"2017-11-15T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2017-11-13T20:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:44:54","slug":"at-my-fathers-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/at-my-fathers-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"At My Father&#8217;s Statement"},"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\" \/>to peep between the curtains<\/li>\n<li>exposed him<\/li>\n<li>just a mess inside that car<\/li>\n<li>although she didn\u2019t even own a car<\/li>\n<li>seemed to me, judging from his fingers,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 232 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><b>\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>At my father&#8217;s statement, questions took flight in my mind like a flock of startled birds. But now was not the time to seek those answers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, the world thinks you&#8217;re dead,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Supposing it turned out they were right after all?&#8221; He sat down heavily on the mattress. &#8220;Glad to see I have your attention. Sit there and behave for a minute and we&#8217;ll get this over with. You have to stop,&#8221; I glanced at the naked woman, &#8220;renting affection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Asian woman scampered through a gap in the velvet along the wall. She turned back <em>to peep between the curtains<\/em>, just a face levitating in the blackness of the room. &#8220;That is not what it is!&#8221; she cried. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a prostitute. We&#8217;re good friends. Last night, I complained that he never <em>exposed him<\/em>self to me. So, he did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Father&#8217;s wheezing laughter grated on my eardrums. &#8220;In a New York minute, I did! Man, things were <em>just a mess inside that car<\/em>.&#8221; Father&#8217;s eyes drifted closed.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped my fingers. &#8220;Stay with us, you pervert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were in a car together,&#8221; he went on in a dreamy voice, &#8220;<em>although she didn&#8217;t even own a car<\/em> according to my security team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was stolen,&#8221; the face in the curtains giggled. Father giggled back.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to Cleopatra and Esmerelda. &#8220;Sounds like you&#8217;re mistaken about the abuse of treasury funds. Now I need to talk to my father about some family business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sisters stood with their arms folded. Unconvinced.<\/p>\n<p>I turned back to Father and snapped my fingers at him some more. I wanted to make him explain about Mom and the one-eyed Svenborgian, but suddenly I was unconvinced, too. Which meant I was pretty convinced I couldn&#8217;t believe anything he told me, so there was no reason to bother asking. Because I noticed a clue I had overlooked before, a clue that told me there was more to this story. Because it <em>seemed to me, judging from his fingers,<\/em> that my father had recently been handling a lot of currency.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the Asian woman and narrowed my eyes.\u00a0&#8220;You,&#8221; I said, &#8220;tell me the truth about what&#8217;s going on here.&#8221;<\/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>to peep between the curtains exposed him just a mess inside that car although she didn\u2019t even own a car seemed to me, judging from his fingers, Tune in next time part 232 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments At my father&#8217;s statement, questions [&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":[91,491,264,403],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-father","tag-prostitute","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}