{"id":7222,"date":"2020-05-13T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2020-05-12T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:07:40","slug":"i-realized-i-had-been-staring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-realized-i-had-been-staring\/","title":{"rendered":"I Realized I Had Been Staring"},"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\" \/>pure diamond<\/li>\n<li>He had pet names for her body parts.<\/li>\n<li>When I turned 16,<\/li>\n<li>with the fur round her boots<\/li>\n<li>disco night every week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 492\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I realized I had been staring for several seconds at the un-caped man. I gave my head a vigorous shake and said in my gruff voice, &#8220;Our methods have been modernized recently. Not sure we really need your help today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tatiana&#8217;s hand clamped onto my elbow and squeezed. I was glad she couldn&#8217;t see the look of agony on my face inside the yeti costume. When her contraction was over, she said, &#8220;Modernized? No! I insist on the traditional birthing methods of the mountain fastness. My children&#8217;s souls will shine like <em>pure diamond<\/em>! And Magnus will be there to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She knew this kooky exhibitionist&#8217;s name. Figured. And probably called him on his birthday. She cat-sitted for him. <em>He had pet names for body parts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why should I feel jealous over Tatiana? The thin alpine air must have been messing up my thinking. It was her sister, Tessa who I wanted to be reunited with. <em>When I turned 16,<\/em> it had been Tessa who lurked in the roadside ditch while I pretended to hitchhike so we could steal a car for my driving test. I remembered how she looked then, with the knife strapped to her thigh, <em>with the fur round her boots<\/em>, with a murderous glint in her eye like a mirrorball of bloodlust. We had <em>disco night every week<\/em>. We had it all. Why had I let my life become so complicated?<\/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>pure diamond He had pet names for her body parts. When I turned 16, with the fur round her boots disco night every week Tune in next time part 492\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I realized I had been staring for several seconds at the un-caped man. I gave my head a vigorous [&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-7222","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\/7222","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=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}