{"id":7929,"date":"2021-05-25T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:00:38","slug":"the-big-six-oh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-big-six-oh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Six-Oh-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>It&#8217;s another milestone for everyone&#8217;s favorite chain story. This one. We&#8217;re talking about this one. The one you&#8217;re currently reading, which has reached its epic 600th installment. Some might say we need a hobby, but the joke&#8217;s on them &#8212; this <em>is<\/em> our hobby!<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate such a grand achievement, Jen and Kent will be working on today&#8217;s entry together. Jen will go first and write until she manages to work in the first prompt phrase, then she&#8217;ll hand the keyboard to Kent. We&#8217;ll alternate until we hit the bottom of the list, then we&#8217;ll hit the showers.<\/p>\n<p>Through the years we&#8217;ve accumulated a small collection of writing advice and style guides, and various and sundry reference books. We&#8217;ve drawn today&#8217;s prompt phrases from a handful of them: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, Woe is I, The Writer&#8217;s Journey, Writing Better Lyrics, and American English Compendium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 599 &amp; 600 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frisk whoever enters.<\/li>\n<li>moped in my boudoir<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t always land gently<\/li>\n<li>Certainly there is magic in the briefcase<\/li>\n<li>rose to his haunches<\/li>\n<li>aeronautical engineer could give a more precise description<\/li>\n<li>ghosts of dead rules and spirits of imaginary taboos<\/li>\n<li>where one style maven sees UFO&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>American slang and colloquialisms<\/li>\n<li>vintage macho expression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the next hour, while my horny necromancer costume dried, I regaled Tessa with stories of Jessamin&#8217;s terribleness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get it,&#8221; Tessa said. &#8220;Your sister sucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more than that,&#8221; I said, but before I could explain we heard a commotion outside. I pulled my still-damp pants on and told Tessa, &#8220;<em>Frisk whoever enters.<\/em> We don&#8217;t want any surprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The noises outside grew more distinct as their source got closer to the door. I could only make out one voice, which sounded angry, mingled with enough crashing of branches and crunching of sleet-crusted snow to suggest a whole brigade. The angry voice said, &#8220;I suppose she&#8217;d have been happy to have <em>moped in my boudoir<\/em> all weekend, but I had places to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recognized the voice, and so did Tessa, judging by the look she threw my way. It was a look that said she was ready to land some punches, and we all know that a robot&#8217;s punches <em>don&#8217;t always land gently<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The knob jiggled once and stilled. The voice outside shouted, &#8220;I know about the briefcase! <em>Certainly there is magic in the briefcase<\/em>, that&#8217;s not even the issue anymore!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why John thought I had the briefcase was anyone&#8217;s guess. I hadn&#8217;t seen that thing in years. The door flew outward and there stood my onetime partner\/ofttimes nemesis, in the teeth of the storm. The snow <em>rose to his haunches<\/em> and was plastered to his clothes so that he resembled a yeti. The wind and ice had sculpted his hair into a lopsided wing, of which I&#8217;m sure an <em>aeronautical engineer could give a more precise description<\/em>. All I could think was that if his head were an airplane it would be doomed to fly in circles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what you&#8217;re going to say,&#8221; he boomed. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to say you can&#8217;t give me the briefcase, and you&#8217;re going to say your brother has it, and you&#8217;re going to cite all these <em>ghosts of dead rules and spirits of imaginary taboos<\/em>, and all that other Contrarian shit. And I&#8217;m sick of it, Jason. Sick. Of. It.&#8221; After a few seconds he raised his phone to his ear and muttered, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have to call you back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tessa and I exchanged a look. Her eyebrow quirked in a very lifelike manner, and I thought I knew what she meant. I knew our game plan. But then I looked at John again, at that hair, and I was mesmerized. It was as if he&#8217;d used a time machine to visit a salon in the 80s <em>where one style maven sees UFO&#8217;s<\/em> and translates them into coiffure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you misplaced your flock of seagulls?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s confusion contorted his face beautifully and I had to suppress a snort of laughter.\u00a0&#8220;You know I don&#8217;t understand all of your <em>American slang and colloquialisms<\/em>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s rude of you to use them around me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t long before the confusion on his face shifted rapidly to a <em>vintage macho expression<\/em>, a confident smirk, as he said, &#8220;You, &#8216;Jason,&#8217; seem to have misplaced your lisp!&#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>It&#8217;s another milestone for everyone&#8217;s favorite chain story. This one. We&#8217;re talking about this one. The one you&#8217;re currently reading, which has reached its epic 600th installment. Some might say we need a hobby, but the joke&#8217;s on them &#8212; this is our hobby! To celebrate such a grand achievement, Jen and Kent will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,88,403,238,534],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-shared-prompt","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-weather","tag-yeti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}