{"id":6250,"date":"2019-02-25T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T04:25:45","slug":"i-thought-you-would-have-guessed-by-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-thought-you-would-have-guessed-by-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Thought You Would Have Guessed By Now&#8221;"},"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\" \/>stuffed with bears<\/li>\n<li>a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion<\/li>\n<li>some crazy hallucinations<\/li>\n<li>but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage<\/li>\n<li>on her head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 365 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought you would have guessed by now,&#8221; my most recent paramour said with a lazy smile. &#8220;I&#8217;m Titania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My blood ran cold and my heart felt as if it were <em>stuffed with bears<\/em> scrambling to escape. Titania! The name brought <em>a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion<\/em>, like the worst acid trips of my youth. You yourself may have endured <em>some crazy hallucinations<\/em>, but I assure you they were nothing compared to what I was currently enduring.<\/p>\n<p>Titania was the sister they never spoke of, the one who scandalized her family and the entire Academy by turning her back on her heritage and embracing the circus life. She&#8217;d given up her true name and was known now as the Crystal Clown, and all of her merry antics were <em>but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage<\/em>. There was a substantial price <em>on her head<\/em>, and here she was, lolling naked beside me on the beach. Her proximity to my children filled me with terror.<\/p>\n<p>The Crystal Clown&#8217;s smile grew less lazy. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get so worked up. I got what I came for.&#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>stuffed with bears a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion some crazy hallucinations but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage on her head Tune in next time part 365 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;I thought you would have guessed by now,&#8221; my most recent paramour said with a lazy smile. &#8220;I&#8217;m [&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":[91,142,182,403],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clown","tag-sex","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","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=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}