{"id":9448,"date":"2023-07-17T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:23:44","slug":"frantically-winking-only-did-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/frantically-winking-only-did-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Frantically Winking Only Did So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>the ancient experiment of pinching<\/li>\n<li>back to the Gauntlet of Brazen Hussies<\/li>\n<li>no idea how much blood<\/li>\n<li>my impression of Ben Affleck<\/li>\n<li>could not be expected to evince surprise at *anything* that was done at the funeral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 817 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frantically winking only did so much to mitigate the horror of being surrounded by my nightmares. If only <em>the ancient experiment of pinching<\/em> oneself would awaken me! In a moment of weakness I glanced <em>back to the Gauntlet of Brazen Hussies<\/em> we&#8217;d just traversed, and saw Petit Julien enter the sculpture garden.<\/p>\n<p>You have <em>no idea how much blood<\/em> was spilled while I perfected <em>my impression of Ben Affleck<\/em>, but it was a lot, and even so it was nothing compared to the blood spilled by the monstrous mime. Tessa once told me about his ruthless rise to leadership of the White Faces, and how he trapped his rivals in an invisible box, cut off their oxygen supply, then insisted on the same invisible box being used as their joint coffin. After hearing that much, you <em>could not be expected to evince surprise at *anything* that was done at the funeral<\/em>, but in the name of decorum, I&#8217;ll spare you the details.<\/p>\n<p>Huge and hulking, with the ground bones of his enemies smeared on his cheeks, Petit Julien barreled toward us and pantomimed yelling Tessa&#8217;s name like a lovesick beau running through the airport after his departing lover. I had the distinct impression that there was something about Tessa&#8217;s relationship with Julien that she had never told me.<\/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>the ancient experiment of pinching back to the Gauntlet of Brazen Hussies no idea how much blood my impression of Ben Affleck could not be expected to evince surprise at *anything* that was done at the funeral Tune in next time part 817 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Frantically winking only did so [&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":[91,112,403,486],"class_list":["post-9448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-mime","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448","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=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}