Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Here we are again. Wednesday clawing it’s way up Thursday’s leg as it touches the cold, morning floor.
(Wait, that was a touch on the weird side, even for the Wakefield Doctrine.)
Here we are again, the once-a-week bloghop, hosted by Denise that goes by the name: ‘Six Sentence Story‘.
To paraphrase a line from the movie, ‘Dogma’, “Can you guess how long the stories are?”*
TRUNK
Like the fifth of the proverbial six blind men, I waited my turn to describe the accident.
Although a minor injury, the cut on my forehead inspired the EMT to go all Paris runway with bandage and gauze; after he left, I pulled the white bands further down over my ears, the squawking police radios became distant exclamation points.
Sitting on the corrugated step of the rescue truck, I rested my chin on the palm of my hand, fingers spread like a cardsharp; the driver of the third car ceased his eyebrow semaphore and looked elsewhere for someone to talk to him.
I felt the smell of cigarettes and coffee as the cop approached and thought, ‘Surely the devil was allowed some creative input when God created the world’.
I stood up and looked at the conga line of sheet metal and radiator steam, popped trunk lids up like the hands of New Year’s Eve celebrants.
“So what compelled you to stop when the traffic light was yellow?” the expression on the cop’s face inspired a college nano-memory, ‘The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in‘; I sighed and decided not to answer.
* Surely, in the world of sarcasm, no one could hold a candle to Alan Rickman**
** youtube ‘Dogma’ Metatron’ the ten minute version
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” the conga line of sheet metal and radiator steam” I can see it. You really tick me off with this good stuff! Stop being so talented. (Was that outlout?) Great six.
lol
( Speaking of outloud, wait ’til you read my comment over at girlie…)
Yeah, about that comment….you are such a clark lol
Um a bit lost here, what’s the 2 minutes hate?
(the curse of the internet part 2.1: too-easily obtained, overly-obscured cultural references strikes again!)
My bad, Bernadette.
It was a meme from Orwell’s novel, 1984
(which we’re totally grateful to him having written a story that contains slogans like ‘War is Peace’ ‘Freedom is Slavery’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength’)
Two Minutes Hate
Hmmm… Thanks. Maybe it’s time I added 1984 to my reading list.
will probably be somewhat on the depressing side, when it was written elements (of the world in the story) were solidly (and safely) in the realm of fantasy and science fiction… today, not so much
Very entertaining 6.
Alan Rickman was a wonderful actor, enjoyed Dogma.
and thumbs up for soundtrack selection .
There are a lot of layers to this one Clark, I feel I could read it numerous times and come away with something new each time. Masterfully executed write!!
Thankee, Miz Lentz (Don’t tell anyone, but I started out trying for some kind of parallel construct to the story of the blind men and the elephant but then god knows why I got Rashomon in my head… decided to stay with the traffic accident scene (while narrowly avoiding my Ian Devereaux pulp world)… and finished with a touch of Orwell…
lol
It’s quite a scene you’ve colorfully painted here. Well done, and yet… have you considered putting into poetic form?
Interesting… speak of this, pardner
Oh, i can see it now — and how i love talking to officers when they are being nice and how i hate talking to them when they get snarky or prodding.
yeah, really
(loved your Six about the Ursuline order… have this odd, literary soft-spot for nuns and religious orders and I’m not even a roger!)
There’s word on the street you been challenged. Poetry 6 challenged :)
love this line:
I felt the smell of cigarettes and coffee as the cop approached and thought, ‘Surely the devil was allowed some creative input when God created the world’.
Wonderful read!
thank you, Lisa