Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Hey! It’s 5:10 pm look at how light it is!
Wednesday afternoon! which means it’s time to rummage through my head and see what I can come up with for a Six Sentence Stroganoff the totally enjoyable writing prompt, courtesy of our friend zoe (who, btw has a new and totally cool new blog, ‘Carrot‘ that you owe it to yourself to go and read! …. after you read my Six, that is!
Actually it’s more like reaching up on a closet shelf, feeling around for something and having a bunch of stuff fall out on the floor.
We have a Prompt word, ‘Cue’ so, lets see what we can find.
Sitting at the banquet table-turned-industrial-modern writing desk, the man watched through the window as squirrels ran frantically across the snow-crusted lawn, from tree to lawn and back again, over and over in repetitious performance of Nature’s graceful Dance of Starvation. Seeing the squirrels reminded him that it was the day of the week he submitted a story written around a prompt word and he smiled, because he enjoyed the exercise.
With dawning horror and deflating confidence, he looked at the blog, the one that demanded creativity, like messages-in-bottles, cast in the sea, except the bottles were like old glass vitamin bottles and the message within written small and brief, on, like those little slips of paper in fortune cookies with cryptic sayings like, ‘beware of mixed metaphors‘, and saw that the week’s prompt word was different from what he’d thought.
“Holy shit,” he intoned, “how can I possibly come up with a story, it’s Thursday and there are only seven minutes left in the morning!”
He looked at what he had written and slowly a smile grew from the double crescent of cup and coffee.
He held his cup towards the window, and thought that perhaps the animals, near death by starvation, paused and looked up in mute wonder mute, as he said, “Done!”
About clarkscottroger
This is a wonderful six sentence story. So real. I wonder if it actually happened? ha ha. And yay, for light past 5:00 pm.
very much so, this morning.
(I have gotten into the habit of starting the Post on Wednesday afternoon-ish (so that, at very least, I don’t have a blank page to stare at) but it was pretty much as described)
A peek into the author’s process.
Hahahahaha!!! Muy excelante! Really? What word did you think it was originally???
Thanks for shout…gonna revamp today
“cue” I stumbled over the page earlier in the week (let that be a lesson to me) and got ‘Cue’ in my head lol
I love that moment when I realize that yes, indeed, I have something to submit.
‘enthusiastic relief’
You can be very eye opening, I see.
A little metafiction today, Clark? Love it.
HA! Art imitates life imitates art. LOVE IT!
I loved how the cue word ‘can’ was slipped in quite seamlessly without making us aware of it. Well done.
Very creative. Enjoyable read.😄
I love meta-fiction. Nicely done!
thank you (I kinda had to look the term up when Lisa mentioned it) sounds cool
lol