Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
damn! I just realized that I forgot to start this post at my office, as I always do. It has been, of late my way…. nothing much, just an intro, maybe some word yeast and then tomorrow morning it’ll be ‘Alex? I’d like Six Sentence Stories for $500.00, please!’ But here I am at home and, while this part of the process is necessary, it’s my …..’warmup’, I’ve grown accustomed to typing at work. Good thing I’m not a roger, otherwise this would bother me much more than this. Wait a minute, who am I kidding, if I was a roger, I wouldn’t have forgotten. And, if I had forgotten, I would either have gotten back in my car or I would’ve decided to change everything about how I write zoe’s little, ‘so you think you can write’ challenge and declare this new way, ‘the only Way I can write a Six Sentence Story‘.
damn! close one!
Prompt word of this week’s Six Sentence Story is ‘Range’
Range Ran
He had been running long enough to lose the panic, though not long enough to be out of danger.
It started with a walk, the path of which intersected an area that he knew, even as he tightened the laces on his shoes, with some prescient echo from the future, like the scent of a saber tooth tiger to a Lower Paleolithic ancestor, that he was running, yet not caught, brought none of the relief he always felt, youthfully fleeing these same dangers.
He knew that he was being pursued, that was never in doubt.
How much of his heart was in his role of successfully fleeing prey, therein was the new thing, and without giving shape or form this this feeling, he knew that it held the seed of his capture and defeat.…he reached the point where the certainty that he was out of range had grown to the point where he began the debate of the question, to look back or speed up, this consideration always gave nearly as much pleasure as the act that followed.
He felt a touch.
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Um….7?
perhaps you would care to elaborate on your provocative use of …numerals
you can’t end in a period and pick up with ellipses and call it NOT a sentence…
Lizzis got a roooger! Lizzis got a roooger!
Oh HUSH! :p
I’m sorry, I totally zoned on the 7
yes, my math skills were deficient and I published a Six Sentence Story with 7 Sentences! lol
When I went back (after 20 people or so had visited it…. figures, every previous day I’d a had 2 people and one of them would have been me… but, this is Six…)
counted and found 7 sentences (in my defence I came up with a different number a couple of times.. but the average ended up 7!)
so I changed a period to a comma
actually I’m counting the ellipseseses as a form of emotional capital letters
Ohhhhh…very cool! Little chill up the proverbial spine!
(for a very creative people, we clarks are not all that good at counting and such… lol)
who cares? We arent talking Dostoevsky in a paragraph… I think we can forgive you this once but just for that I expect you to complete chapter ten in 3 sentences or less!
lol
A bit scary, especially as i know that “safe” is a relative term.
yeah, one of those life’s insights that we desperately want to believe that it’s better to know than not know
I could feel him panting as he was running. Good one, Clark.
thank you Val!
And just when I thought he was safe. . .
Hand on the shoulder. A touch. Loving the parallels…
Wow. My heart is pumping just reading it.
thank you
Did you correct it for I could only find 6?
I think that was a childhood fear of mine of being followed and then feeling the touch on the shoulder. I have grown out of that now as I do the following…just kidding.
yes I corrected in a manner common when I was young* I didn’t want to re-write it, because for reason’s not clear to me, that would not have been proper, so I changed a period into one really big-assed sentence…
lol
*when I was young and played in a band, I had an amplifier that would, spontaneously and for no good reason make this really loud squealing noise, I would kick it and it (usually stopped)
Yup. Right at the end…that was creepy.
Love the first line. Love the image! Also love the LizziRoger up there calling you out on your math issues. :D Not that MY Roger noticed or anything…
lol