{"id":7093,"date":"2020-03-02T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:17:19","slug":"what-a-magnificent-periscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/what-a-magnificent-periscope\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What a Magnificent Periscope!&#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\" \/>recently found love for the colloquialisms<\/li>\n<li>and six half-brothers<\/li>\n<li>hoped it was a prank<\/li>\n<li>your crazy-ass granddaddy<\/li>\n<li>cats are not a rare species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 471 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a magnificent periscope!&#8221; Oksana squealed.<\/p>\n<p>For one chilling second I thought I&#8217;d been spotted, until I realized she was utterly fixated on what she&#8217;d found in Jim&#8217;s leather trousers. I had no interest in watching their libidinal activities, so I put my own (actual) periscope away. I could still hear them, though.<\/p>\n<p>Jim purred, &#8220;Your <em>recently found love for the Colloquialisms<\/em> is adorable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colloquilia is a beautiful country,&#8221; Oksana said, her voice breathy. &#8220;And their figures of speech even more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to spend summers there with my twin sisters <em>and six half-brothers<\/em>,&#8221; Jim drawled.<\/p>\n<p>That was a lie. With our father and mother both being president at various times, travel to the enemy nation of Colloquilia was strictly forbidden. I didn&#8217;t know what Jim was up to, but I <em>hoped it was a prank<\/em>\u00a0as opposed to treason.<\/p>\n<p>Jim went on, &#8220;Why did <em>your crazy-ass granddaddy<\/em> abdicate the throne?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t have a choice, if he wanted to live,&#8221; Oksana replied. &#8220;Now, Jim, I want you to stalk me like a Paradoxica Snow Panther.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oksana was Colloquilian? Snow<em>\u00a0cats are not a rare species<\/em> here in the mountains, but exiled Colloquilian royalty certainly are.<\/p>\n<p>What was Jim up to?<\/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>recently found love for the colloquialisms and six half-brothers hoped it was a prank your crazy-ass granddaddy cats are not a rare species Tune in next time part 471 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;What a magnificent periscope!&#8221; Oksana squealed. 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