{"id":7903,"date":"2021-05-10T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2021-05-16T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T19:42:48","slug":"theres-no-time-to-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/theres-no-time-to-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s No Time to Explain&#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\" \/>giraffe bikini<\/li>\n<li>making laser noises from the shadows<\/li>\n<li>thick, plastic liquid that hardens in a few hours<\/li>\n<li>brothers and sisters I\u2019ve apparently never met<\/li>\n<li>gripping the animal by its dainty hooves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 595\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no time to explain,&#8221; I said. &#8220;We have to get to Twerkistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t.&#8221; said Tessa. &#8220;The weather is awful, and all you&#8217;re wearing are <em>giraffe bikini<\/em> briefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sighed. &#8220;You&#8217;re right. I wish my clothes would dry faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So since we do in fact have the time, why don&#8217;t you tell me who you think the cop is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s not really a cop. She just likes to dress like one.&#8221; I tried to think how best to describe her. &#8220;Her name is Jessamin. She&#8217;s my sister, and she&#8217;s a villain. I&#8217;ve been chasing her for years, and she&#8217;s always one step ahead of me, <em>making laser noises from the shadows<\/em> and laughing. Once she broke into my room and dipped all my most precious things in a <em>thick, plastic liquid that hardens in a few hours<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have <em>brothers and sisters I&#8217;ve apparently never met<\/em>,&#8221; Tessa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have brothers and sisters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I&#8217;ve<\/span> never met. My parents got around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I shuddered at the memory of my stuffed pegasus, once so soft and cuddly. I pictured Jessamin preparing to encase it in plastic, <em>gripping the animal by its dainty hooves<\/em>, a wicked grin on her face.<\/p>\n<p>But what was she doing interfering with a police investigation in Twerkistan?<\/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>giraffe bikini making laser noises from the shadows thick, plastic liquid that hardens in a few hours brothers and sisters I\u2019ve apparently never met gripping the animal by its dainty hooves Tune in next time part 595\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;There&#8217;s no time to explain,&#8221; I said. &#8220;We have to get to Twerkistan.&#8221; [&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":[335,91,350,403,238],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-bonus-points","tag-sister","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","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=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}