{"id":5528,"date":"2018-03-19T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:17:25","slug":"i-am-well-versed-in-the-pianists-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-am-well-versed-in-the-pianists-code\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Well-Versed in the Pianist&#8217;s Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>\u201cI\u2019ve known her since grade school.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>just across the Mississippi state line<\/li>\n<li>the extraordinary nature of his luggage<\/li>\n<li>her late husband\u2019s secret torments<\/li>\n<li>and now wears a hood to protect his identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 267 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am well-versed in the pianist&#8217;s code, so reading the message on Tesla&#8217;s fingernails would have been easy if only she&#8217;d kept them all in view. Instead she played me like a piano, her delicate fingers dancing all over my body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this is happening,&#8221; I thought. <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve known her since grade school.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s fingers continued their intricate dance, down my torso and <em>just across the Mississippi state line<\/em>, if you will, which was currently obscured by layers of balloon animals. She seemed pleased with what she found there, and said many flattering things about my package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s going on?&#8221; I heard Jason lisp from the hatch overhead. &#8220;I can&#8217;t see past all these balloon animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>William Sausage sighed. &#8220;She&#8217;s cooing about <em>the extraordinary nature of his luggage<\/em> at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason called down, &#8220;We&#8217;re twins you know. Identical. My &#8216;luggage&#8217; is just as nice as his.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tesla somehow ignored all the chatter going on over our heads. Between the squealing shrieks of the balloon animals, she murmured to me about<em> her late husband&#8217;s secret torments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yves is dead?&#8221; I asked in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He might as well be,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He&#8217;s so ashamed of himself for breaking the vows of mime by speaking, that he changed his name <em>and now wears a hood to protect his identity<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She kissed me and I tasted grease paint. Grease paint and something else.<\/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>\u201cI\u2019ve known her since grade school.\u201d just across the Mississippi state line the extraordinary nature of his luggage her late husband\u2019s secret torments and now wears a hood to protect his identity Tune in next time part 267 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,24,54,221,403],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-brother","tag-kiss","tag-music","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}