{"id":9805,"date":"2023-12-13T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:40:13","slug":"the-atmosphere-inside-the-horse-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-atmosphere-inside-the-horse-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atmosphere Inside the Horse Costume"},"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\" \/>using our peripheral vision<\/li>\n<li>little aliens in my earwax<\/li>\n<li>rampant lumber-jack-o-phobia<\/li>\n<li>green motorcycle goggles covered his eyes<\/li>\n<li>given to mild theatrics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 860 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere inside the horse costume was becoming tense and swampy, as both Small Dennis and myself stood in the presence of clowns both Crystal and Iron and absorbed the diabolical vibrations of their laughter. I knew Small Dennis was about to crack, but owing to the constraints of the costume we could only communicate by <em>using our peripheral vision<\/em>. I gave up trying to calm him and concentrated on my own dilemmas. Time was running out before the ruse with Big Dennis would be discovered, and it was hard to concentrate when every utterance from BimBam or Titania seemed to awaken <em>little aliens in my earwax<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, BimBam declared, &#8220;But that&#8217;s where they do all the logging!&#8221; And I dared a small smile, because I realized that the airship&#8217;s course would create an opportunity to use the <em>rampant lumber-jack-o-phobia<\/em> among clowns to my advantage. I even risked a peek through the seam between the front and back halves of the horse, and there beyond Titania&#8217;s shapely shin I beheld the notorious BimBam Tickles, the Iron Clown of Svenborgia. His flaking greasepaint had all the ochre hues of a corroded shipping container, and his hair stood in a venomous pink mohawk. Black fangs protruded from his leering lips and <em>green motorcycle goggles covered his eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The urgency of Small Dennis&#8217;s plight fully registered then. He&#8217;d been subjected to this visage all along, through the horse suit&#8217;s eyeholes. Based on the fact that he worked pantsless, I had to assume that he was <em>given to mild theatrics<\/em> even under normal conditions.<\/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>using our peripheral vision little aliens in my earwax rampant lumber-jack-o-phobia green motorcycle goggles covered his eyes given to mild theatrics Tune in next time part 860 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments The atmosphere inside the horse costume was becoming tense and swampy, as both Small Dennis and myself stood in the presence [&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":[91,142,563,403],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clown","tag-nightmare-fuel","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}