Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Once again we join Denise and her band of word-wranglers over at the Six Sentence Story blog hop.
New participants and Readers? Here’s the drill: a new prompt word each week and Six sentence requirement (nothin over or below… semi-colons is ok).
This week’s word:
Memory:
“Relax, don’t try to force it,” the words, coming as they were from someone wearing a stethoscope and a white lab coat, were as powerful and impersonal as a ball bearing dropped from a skyscraper.
He didn’t feel like he was in a dream and smiled at the thought, Well, at least I have a pronoun and an inferred location, the smile evaporated at the thought of laying claim to qualities that simply do not normally occupy conscious thought.
The voice continued, “Memory is more than facts and information, it is, as an old TV commercial sang, the fabric of our lives.”
This other man, claiming membership in the same gender, if only for subtle the challenge in his voice, looked ‘pre-familiar’, like childhood photos of people you knew as an adult.
A burst of static stabbed countless tentacles into the surface of his brain forming, in their soundless echo, the image of a woman standing over him and, from behind (or above) her, this same man’s voice.
“…this treatment, well think of it as a reboot for your mind, everything should work as it did before, although you might experience some moments of disorientation.”
About clarkscottroger
“moments of disorientation” every day, buddy, every day! It’s the meds…or no…maybe the Russians…great six my man, great six.
thanks man (if only it were the meds… or the Russians lol)
Superlative Six.
Ella…perfect 👌
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Well, I’ll be lobotomized!
Oh my goodness! Great six!
Thank you, Lisa
The lab coat set off a clinical tone that was close to creepy. Cool Six.
If I had the smell ‘O app, I would have added the scent of isopropyl alcohol (surely the most terror-laden odors of childhood)
Now that is one way to try to get back one’s memory. . .maybe.
Well done Six.
yeah, might be the long ways around in this case
Oh I really like your take on memory!
Thanks Susan!