Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Rhode Island College, Providence RI
Six Sentence Story is the bloghop
Denise is the host.
Point is: write a story employing the week’s prompt word that is six words, sentences* exactly, in length.
Novel
Selecting a decent-sized piece among the chalk that lay, like polar core samples, in the aluminum tray at the front of the classroom, the man turned away from the room full of college students. His age showed more in his fashion choices than anything else; tweed and leather elbow-patches illustrating the divide of time between middle-aged man and the students awaiting his 24th semester’s Creative Writing 101.
Ignoring the plastic clatter of laptops and heart-beeps of fingers on phones, he listened to the whispered conspiracy between white chalk and blackboard. A smile in his mind semaphored, ‘Write ‘Oxymoron’ with a question mark and a slew of arrows every which way!’ The voice of his department chairman, like an unfortunate smell at the pinnacle of a romantic moment intruded, ‘Being oddly funny does not enhance your chances for tenure, Carl.’
Trying out the title, ‘English-Professor-But-Not-the-Next-Orson Scott Card’, he frowned, then laughed and wrote, ‘The Novel’ (and underneath), ‘how hard can it be?’
*thanks to Denise for the post-post edit… although we’ve all heard the most famous of all flash stories (before, way before flash fiction) frequently attributed to Hemingway, ‘For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.’ ayiee! To write such a Six!
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Some more than others, know how “hard it can be”!
Keep at it.
Enjoyable 6 for the identification back then and current day, as Carl’s contemporary.
Simple, steady flow, easily visualized.
Awesome six my man. ❤️ Cheap trick!
and, imho a case of the cover surpassing the original no?
Anyone who dares to attempt writing a novel has my respect.
ty K
Carl deserves tenure. Stodgy is not impressive to me.
I mean the guy wears tweed jackets with leather elbows patches whats not to like?
Very nice!
Who am I that I loved “the whispered conspiracy between white chalk and blackboard”? There is something oddly funny about this…
that line comes complete with white dust and brown corduroy
Why is it that I think he may smell of sweet cherry pipe tobacco? I’d buy him a coffee and scone.
fer sure
Your protag is a very likeable character in my opinion, and i think he might actually be teaching the youngster something, even if they don’t realize it now.. Nice six, Clark.
Thanks, V
I enjoy the shadow play inherent in this writing thing