{"id":7744,"date":"2021-02-15T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:16:29","slug":"the-guy-in-the-clawfoot-sidecar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-guy-in-the-clawfoot-sidecar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guy in the Clawfoot Sidecar"},"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\" \/>Queer, that.<\/li>\n<li>I knew right then it was the same person<\/li>\n<li>Jeff\u2019s hairless coconut<\/li>\n<li>bent at the elbow<\/li>\n<li>fed them molasses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 571<\/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>The guy in the clawfoot sidecar looked quite solid, even though he claimed to be a ghost. <em>Queer, that.<\/em> He also looked quite familiar, especially his bald head. Brandita revved the throttle impatiently. Baldy gestured again to the deep end of the tub. &#8220;What are you waiting for, an engraved invitation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His words made me think of wedding invitations, and of the ceremony I&#8217;d participated in a few hours earlier, and of the Viscount whom I had impersonated during that ceremony, and of a photo I had once seen of that Viscount and his missing brother, Viscount Jeff. <em>I knew right then it was the same person<\/em> in the photo and in the bathtub. This was the ghost of Arlo&#8217;s brother. But why on earth was he haunting this plumbing fixture?<\/p>\n<p>I finally climbed into the tubcar and stared at the wound on the back of Viscount <em>Jeff&#8217;s hairless coconut<\/em>. Brandita gunned it and we tore down the driveway. As we sped through the night, I transferred my studious examination from Jeff&#8217;s head to his arms. Particularly the left one, which was <em>bent at the elbow<\/em> in entirely the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to think like my favorite fictional investigator, Transylvania Homicide Detective Regis St Oink Oink, who, before questioning a suspect, always <em>fed them molasses<\/em> by the bottleful. I had no molasses, but if I questioned Jeff properly, I might be able to get Arlo arrested for murder. And then I&#8217;d never have to deal with that dick again.<\/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>Queer, that. I knew right then it was the same person Jeff\u2019s hairless coconut bent at the elbow fed them molasses Tune in next time part 571\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The guy in the clawfoot sidecar looked quite solid, even though he claimed to be a ghost. Queer, that. He also looked quite [&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":[91,163,369,403],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-ghost","tag-thriller","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","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=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7748,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}