{"id":6371,"date":"2019-05-01T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2019-04-22T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T02:43:33","slug":"the-prisons-subbasement-interrogation-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-prisons-subbasement-interrogation-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prison&#8217;s Subbasement Interrogation Room"},"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\" \/>\u201cLooks like Saltines, but that wouldn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>with a blast of trumpets<\/li>\n<li>the dental technician<\/li>\n<li>slowly inching towards it<\/li>\n<li>expected me much earlier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 384 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prison&#8217;s subbasement interrogation room wasn&#8217;t really babyproof, so I had to keep holding all six infants while I tried to solve the riddle of the Russian contortionist sisters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eef you releaze me, I can help you with lay bay-bay,&#8221; the prisoner said. His accent seemed thicker all the sudden, and his tears had dried up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nice try,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>He shrugged, making the leather straps around his limbs creak. &#8220;May I inquire, though, what it is that I am seeing on the shelf across the room?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I turned my head. <em>&#8220;Looks like Saltines, but that wouldn&#8217;t make sense.&#8221;<\/em> I faced him again. &#8220;It&#8217;s against indigenous Inimical tradition to store food in an interrogation chamber, and the Contrarians might be many things, but flouters of tradition they are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am being very thirsty as it is, so merci non pour the crackers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure. Why not tell me more about these women, and I&#8217;ll maybe see about getting you some water.&#8221; I swayed, trying to keep the six babies in gentle, soothing motion and shift the burden around a bit so my arms wouldn&#8217;t fall off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were part of a new finale which none of the regular performers had been permitted to witness in rehearsals. It began <em>with a blast of trumpets<\/em> announcing the entrance of the fire eaters and <em>the dental technician<\/em>s. How the crowd cheered at their elaborate dance of flames and floss. This was all misdirection, allowing the sisters to be brought out in a suitcase and placed at the center of the action. No one else besides me detected its arrival, but I was drawn toward it, as if by a magnetism of the soul. I understood what this baggage signified, and I found myself <em>slowly inching towards it<\/em>, interfering with the show that was still very much going on. At last, I was there, crawling on my belly like a besotted worm, and suddenly the suitcase, it was springing open with the tangled sisters inside, and they were saying that they had <em>expected me much earlier<\/em>.&#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>\u201cLooks like Saltines, but that wouldn\u2019t make sense.\u201d with a blast of trumpets the dental technician slowly inching towards it expected me much earlier Tune in next time part 384 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The prison&#8217;s subbasement interrogation room wasn&#8217;t really babyproof, so I had to keep holding all six infants while [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","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=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}