{"id":6825,"date":"2019-10-07T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2019-10-06T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:17:04","slug":"alone-in-my-mountain-fortress-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/alone-in-my-mountain-fortress-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone in My Mountain Fortress Chamber"},"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\" \/>fell into a troubled sleep<\/li>\n<li>brushing her wine glass<\/li>\n<li>save it, asswipe<\/li>\n<li>I thought about the gradient<\/li>\n<li>three-legged races, dunk tanks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 429 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alone in my mountain fortress chamber, I <em>fell into a troubled sleep<\/em>. I woke to a squeaking noise, like that a woman makes by <em>brushing her wine glass<\/em> rim with a damp finger. As my sleep-clouded eyes cleared, I saw that it was merely the fox rubbing his nose on the windowpane. &#8220;<em>Save it, asswipe<\/em>,&#8221; I grumbled, throwing my pillow at the beast. &#8220;It&#8217;s the middle of the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fox looked at me smugly and curled up to sleep on the pillow, leaving me with nothing to rest my head upon. Would I be able to capture the animal? I could grab it and throw it out into the snow and finally sleep in peace. But then<em> I thought about the gradient<\/em> of the slope, how the Paradoxica Mountains were practically vertical, and I knew such a toss would likely be fatal to the poor creature. I sighed and laid back on my feather mattress. Surely there were things more uncomfortable than sleeping sans pillow. Things like circuses, <em>three-legged races, dunk tanks<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I tucked my arm under my head and drifted off.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, blinding sunlight flooded my quarters. YoYo stood at the foot of my bed. When she saw that I was awake, she said, &#8220;I have an urgent message from your wife.&#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>fell into a troubled sleep brushing her wine glass save it, asswipe I thought about the gradient three-legged races, dunk tanks Tune in next time part 429 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Alone in my mountain fortress chamber, I fell into a troubled sleep. I woke to a squeaking noise, like that a [&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":[335,91,403],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","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=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}