{"id":9224,"date":"2023-03-08T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T01:40:08","slug":"tessas-new-zoot-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tessas-new-zoot-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa&#8217;s New Zoot Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>I don\u2019t know if you can tell or not, but<\/li>\n<li>yoga at gunpoint<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;in a coffin<\/li>\n<li>visionary, fantasist, poet, and painter<\/li>\n<li>the term \u201cBermuda Triangle\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 780 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tessa&#8217;s new zoot suit had many pockets, but none of them had any money in them. For a moment I thought that would put an end to the tattoo peccadillo, but she simply told the roving tattooist, &#8220;<em>I don&#8217;t know if you can tell or not, but<\/em> this man is a general, and he&#8217;s commandeering your ink bottle on official business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No sweat,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;That just means I get to knock off early!&#8221; He pedalled away.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa hauled me around a corner and asked me what I wanted my tattoo to look like. We didn&#8217;t have a needle, but I knew from experience that wouldn&#8217;t slow her down. Her talent for improvisation had allowed her to write a lengthy coded message on my chest, and the prospect of going through something like that again was about as relaxing as doing <em>yoga at gunpoint &#8212; in a coffin<\/em> &#8212; so I couldn&#8217;t even begin to offer design suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>She made me take off the white lab coat. With a faraway look in her eyes, she said, &#8220;How about something in the style of <em>visionary, fantasist, poet, and painter<\/em>\u00a0Melvil Dewey&#8230;&#8221; I resigned myself to my fate, knowing Tessa was in a creative fugue state where no appeal to reason could penetrate. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; she gasped, &#8220;I can see it now! A symbol, a shape, that will rehabilitate <em>the term &#8216;Bermuda Triangle&#8217;<\/em> for future generations!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if you can tell or not, but yoga at gunpoint &#8211;in a coffin visionary, fantasist, poet, and painter the term \u201cBermuda Triangle\u201d Tune in next time part 780 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Tessa&#8217;s new zoot suit had many pockets, but none of them had any money in them. For [&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":[403],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}