{"id":9449,"date":"2023-07-19T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2023-05-24T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:55:19","slug":"a-moment-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/a-moment-of-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment Of Clarity"},"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\" \/>tastes like sock dirt<\/li>\n<li>one thing I absolutely hate in relationships is banal chitchat<\/li>\n<li>his very fancy castle<\/li>\n<li>lick peanut butter off your nipples<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a tax thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 818 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A moment of clarity came over me. I realized that Petit Julien was never going to stop chasing us as long as we were running away. The dynamics of the situation would have to change. And then I saw what I had to do. Sometimes you take your medicine, even if it <em>tastes like sock dirt<\/em>, and this was one of those times.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped winking and turned to face the menacing mega-mime. I let him close the distance between us, dimly aware that Jim and Tessa were shrieking at me to move. When Petit Julien was only a dozen strides away, I directed my gaze at the hideous statuary. I silently acted out my terror at the sight of those forms, using the art of mime against their king.<\/p>\n<p>It worked. Petit Julien couldn&#8217;t miss a cue, so he did a dutiful double-take as if noticing the nightmare sculptures for the first time. Maybe he was. But what he didn&#8217;t count on was the illusion of movement that those statues possessed. He dramatically passed out from fright, keeling over on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>I rejoined my companions, dusting off my hands. Jim asked, &#8220;Are there lady mimes? Cuz <em>one thing I absolutely hate in relationships is banal chitchat<\/em>, which I reckon wouldn&#8217;t be much of a problem with a mime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should set up a dating profile,&#8221; Tessa told him. &#8220;Your bio would say you&#8217;re a mad poet who lives all alone in <em>his very fancy castle<\/em> and needs a companion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh-huh,&#8221; Jim said, nodding. &#8220;Come for a visit and I&#8217;ll <em>lick peanut butter off your nipples<\/em>. But you can&#8217;t make a sound! <em>It&#8217;s a tax thing.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should not be here when Petit Julien comes to,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s find the nearest exit.&#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>tastes like sock dirt one thing I absolutely hate in relationships is banal chitchat his very fancy castle lick peanut butter off your nipples It\u2019s a tax thing. Tune in next time part 818 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments A moment of clarity came over me. I realized that Petit Julien was never [&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":[91,112,403],"class_list":["post-9449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-mime","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","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=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}