{"id":9396,"date":"2023-06-21T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2023-05-16T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:29:20","slug":"we-dashed-out-of-the-airships-dinner-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/we-dashed-out-of-the-airships-dinner-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"We Dashed Out Of The Airship&#8217;s Dinner Theater"},"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\" \/>third brother-in-law<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m a super optimistic person<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m sorry, but who is this man?<\/li>\n<li>puppets, comrades<\/li>\n<li>infamous party that included a bisexual orgy, a black mass, and \u2014 most shockingly \u2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 810 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We dashed out of the airship&#8217;s dinner theater and immediately found ourselves in another, much smaller theater. I recognized the lead performer as my wife&#8217;s <em>third brother-in-law<\/em>, aka my brother Jim. No one would say <em>I&#8217;m a super optimistic person<\/em>, but even I had been pretty sure our situation was due to get less complicated, not more.<\/p>\n<p>Our arrival seemed to have brought the show to a halt. Someone in the front row stood and pointed at me. &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m sorry, but who is this man?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never mind the interruption,&#8221; my brother drawled. But there was something odd about his accent. &#8220;Please to return attention to <em>puppets, comrades<\/em>,&#8221; he continued. I wondered what had been happening to him since I last saw him in the petting zoo, and I wondered why he was affecting this slavic persona. But I knew I would need to be patient about asking any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Jim had socks on both hands, and by their &#8220;costumes&#8221; I suddenly knew which play he was doing. It was something that had been written on a partition in the seediest bathroom at The Academy, accumulating over the decades a line at a time. It contained much that was clearly fiction, but also a blow-by-blow depiction &#8212; likely factual &#8212; of an <em>infamous party that included a bisexual orgy, a black mass, and &#8212; most shockingly &#8212;<\/em> a duel fought (inconclusively) with uncooked spaghetti.<\/p>\n<p>I took a closer look at the small audience, wondering who was attending such a peculiar exhibition.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>third brother-in-law I\u2019m a super optimistic person I\u2019m sorry, but who is this man? puppets, comrades infamous party that included a bisexual orgy, a black mass, and \u2014 most shockingly \u2014 Tune in next time part 810 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments We dashed out of the airship&#8217;s dinner theater and immediately found [&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":[91,190,403],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-puppet","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","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=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}