{"id":9250,"date":"2023-03-15T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2023-03-12T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:28:41","slug":"tessa-slipped-my-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tessa-slipped-my-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Slipped My Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>put the paper back into the envelope<\/li>\n<li>Come, girls, bustle about.<\/li>\n<li>all the feathers were in their correct positions<\/li>\n<li>\u201cthrowing ice cubes at a parade\u201d<\/li>\n<li>bag of greenish-brown sludge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 782 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tessa slipped my grip and took hold of my briefs-weasel once more. &#8220;You know you want it,&#8221; she purred. Her fingers performed an elaborate shimmying dance in there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, um,&#8221; I stammered, &#8220;that&#8217;s just it. I&#8217;m not sure, but what I do know is that you can&#8217;t, uh, <em>put the paper back into the envelope<\/em>. Or something. There&#8217;s no going back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just then a nearby door burst open. A dozen people trooped into the corridor, last of all a woman in jodhpurs who barked, &#8220;<em>Come, girls, bustle about.<\/em> Boys, keep mincing. Good, good. We don&#8217;t need a repeat of the matinee, when not <em>all the feathers were in their correct positions<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the bustlers and mincers glanced our way, but no one fully acknowledged our presence. The sudden crowd did distract Tessa long enough for me to escape. If I was not mistaken, we were witnessing a rehearsal for the show one Contrarian critic described as how it would look if a troop of wombats began <em>&#8220;throwing ice cubes at a parade&#8221;<\/em> and less enjoyable than &#8220;drinking an entire <em>bag of greenish-brown sludge<\/em>.&#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>put the paper back into the envelope Come, girls, bustle about. all the feathers were in their correct positions \u201cthrowing ice cubes at a parade\u201d bag of greenish-brown sludge Tune in next time part 782 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Tessa slipped my grip and took hold of my briefs-weasel once more. &#8220;You [&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-9250","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\/9250","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=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}