{"id":6717,"date":"2019-08-14T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2019-08-11T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T20:46:28","slug":"being-cooped-up-in-such-a-confined-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/being-cooped-up-in-such-a-confined-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Cooped Up In Such A Confined Space"},"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\" \/>with a purposeful grimace<\/li>\n<li>cool it on the hedgehog kissing<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s stuck on something.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>trimmed with black and red<\/li>\n<li>tastes like mayonnaise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 414 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being cooped up in such a confined space with the Donuts made me nervous, but I wanted to conserve the rest of my knockout gas so there was nothing to be done about it except stare at them <em>with a purposeful grimace<\/em> to keep them from getting any ideas. The last solid information I had about them was really just a rumor. They allegedly wrote the same cryptic message in everyone&#8217;s yearbook upon graduating from the Academy: <em>cool it on the hedgehog kissing<\/em>. What that code might mean, I couldn&#8217;t guess.<\/p>\n<p>Paternosters don&#8217;t move very fast, so the journey to the top of the mountain was taking a very long time. Suddenly there was a jolt and a loud squeal, and the machine stopped. There were no controls, no phone, no hatchway. None of the plot contrivances afforded by a conventional elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Violet &#8212; or maybe Harriet, I still didn&#8217;t know which one was the mime &#8212; peered along the edge of the opening in our box. She squinted, and then her mouth moved. Slightly out of sync came her sister&#8217;s voice saying, <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s stuck on something.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I rolled my eyes. &#8220;Stuck on what?&#8221; I asked. The sister in the fancy bustier <em>trimmed in black and red<\/em> satin rolled her eyes right back at me and shrugged. I went over to the edge. &#8220;Let me take a look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I squinted through the gap between our box and the rock shaft it traveled in, the mime Donut wriggled against my side. I tried to pretend I didn&#8217;t notice. The last thing I needed on a day like this was another seduction. Too late I learned what she was really reaching for, when the squirrel on my right epaulet hissed in my face. And I also learned that the knockout gas Aloysius gave me <em>tastes like mayonnaise<\/em>.<\/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>with a purposeful grimace cool it on the hedgehog kissing \u201cIt\u2019s stuck on something.\u201d trimmed with black and red tastes like mayonnaise Tune in next time part 414 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Being cooped up in such a confined space with the Donuts made me nervous, but I wanted to conserve the [&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":[91,530,403],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-paternoster","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717","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=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}