{"id":5850,"date":"2018-09-05T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2018-09-17T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:57:13","slug":"contrarian-literature-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/contrarian-literature-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrarian Literature About the Future"},"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\" \/>known as ironic repetition<\/li>\n<li>I admit, this got me a little teary-eyed<\/li>\n<li>eluded surveillance<\/li>\n<li>huge and hideous<\/li>\n<li>as he frequently did<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 316 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contrarian literature about the future utilizes a stylistic device <em>known as ironic repetition<\/em>, making the books tedious to read but easy to memorize. So I recalled enough details to see myself clearly depicted in the story as a tragic hero. <em>I admit, this got me a little teary-eyed<\/em> even though I was certain the prophecy was a sham. Fleur and her family believed it, and that fact made it pertinent to my survival, which made it self-fulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>Xylona skimmed the waves well below the height of the landing deck, racing toward the stern of the ship. Then she killed the engine. I held my questions, hoping she knew what she was up to. Wondering what good it would do us if we <em>eluded surveillance<\/em> only to create a <em>huge and hideous<\/em> grease stain on the hull.<\/p>\n<p>My aunt&#8217;s piloting skills impressed me. We slowed abruptly, and just when I was sure we would drop into the churning wake behind the aircraft carrier, she hauled our nose up and we climbed just enough to clear the deck and settle to a silent stop in a pool of shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Leaning forward, Xylona whispered, &#8220;No noise, now. We can&#8217;t alert the crew to our arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John started singing in his sleep, <em>as he frequently did<\/em>. &#8220;They go uppity up-up, they go down, ditty down-down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Floodlights on the bridge snapped on, illuminating the landing deck.<\/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>known as ironic repetition I admit, this got me a little teary-eyed eluded surveillance huge and hideous as he frequently did Tune in next time part 316 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Contrarian literature about the future utilizes a stylistic device known as ironic repetition, making the books tedious to read but easy [&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":[356,91,451,403],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-airplane","tag-bonus-points","tag-prophecy","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}