Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Six Sentence Story is both theme and parameters.
Denise provides the prompt word and keeps the light on.
(Liner notes*: For those of you following the serial story, ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’ that I recently started posting to the Facebook and WordPress you saw in this week’s Chapter 2 an interlude kinda thing, a girl in California, seemingly having nothing to do with the story. That girl is, of course, Starr Tudor. Where things get interesting is, that little section was originally a Six Sentence Story (back when zoe had the helm). It occurred to me that what might be fun is to plug-in Six Sentence Story scenes as I write the serial. To that end, this week’s Six is an interlude between Starr and another member of a group of friends from college.)
The word this week:
PROCESS
Stepping into the South Chicago bar, Starr felt the gaze of the crowd pass over her like the illumination of a lighthouse on a foggy sea, nothing about her was lost despite it’s seemingly uncaring touch; her olive drab coat and black watch cap failed to mute her natural self-confidence, that a flash of chalice-gold hair peeked out between wool and khaki at her shoulder as she scanned the room didn’t help.
Spotting her friend at a table off to the right of a small stage, she moved with the graceful assurance of a person who was absent the day every child was taught to fear unknown people and strange environments. As she wove between the tables, she felt the scrutiny of the regular patrons, dark reflections in the mirrored wall behind the tiered rows of bottles, un-moving yet alive, like Easter Island monoliths; she smiled at the slight rise of a couple of shot glasses as she passed.
Sitting down across from the young man, Starr slide the thumb drive across the table, lit a cigarette and, without preamble said, “Well, no luck finding Margaret, we really could have used her talent in the virtual world; any luck figuring out how this works?”
“I could care less how it works or what process it employs, as long as we get someone to pay us for it.” The young man’s voice betrayed the shaky truce between the passion in his eyes and the furtive hunch to his shoulders.
* back in the day, when music came on large vinyl records, the packaging was equal in size. A lot of room for information, list of songs, photos, art, insight into the music, aka ‘liner notes’.
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That was terrific! I look forward to getting caught up!
thanks! (hopefully the links are working)
welcome to the Six Sentence Story
Cool. I’ve added The Case of the Missing Starr to my list of must read stories. Keep ’em coming!
“… she moved with the graceful assurance of a person who was absent the day every child was taught to fear unknown people and strange environments.”
Great line. Wish I’d been absent that day, lol.
yeah… this future trick (rhetorical device) of inserting Starr Sixes hopefully will add a dimension to the story.
I especially liked the lighthouse imagery.
“Starr felt the gaze of the crowd pass over her like the illumination of a lighthouse on a foggy sea, nothing about her was lost despite it’s seemingly uncaring touch”
me too
Brilliant! Will have to come back and read more of your story.
Let me know if you have any problem finding it on the Facebook, don’t really know if I have it set up correctly there… it’s definitely available in WordPress
thanks
You are excellent at setting scenes Clark, this put us right there, watching her cross the room with that air of confidence, and then setting up the intrigue of what files the zip drive might hold, and who would pay for them!
thank you, Josie
Wow. She’s the kind who is going to come in for attention everywhere, no matter what.
yeah, I starting to like Starr even more
Wow! This leaves us hanging and wanting to come back and read more!
Great descriptive story going on here.
thanks, Pat
So do you have the link to the original start of the story? This was great! You really know how to do the cliffhanger
Yeah, that should be a link in the ‘liner notes’ introduction at the top of the post… I’m also posting as a serial on ‘the facebook’
Mysterious zip drive and mysterious person. Who is Margaret? Hmmm.
Glad you ask!
The first complete novel I wrote had, as a main character a novitiate nun, Sister Margaret Ryan. (It was a slightly techno murder mystery thing, a nun noir, as I was taking to refer to the genre). Really excellent character.
The thing I’ve decided to do, seeing how the idea of the pulp detective serial ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’ sprang from a Six Sentence Story is to interweave Six Sentence Stories into the traditional narrative of the story. Sorta traditional novel with flash stories sprinkles.
Let me know if the effect is not helping (it runs the risk of making the story disjointed).
Diving deep as always. Excellent six, Clark..
Thanks, V.
Comin from way behind on this learning the writing thing… ever chance I get, ya know?
You make me think. Good six.
thanks, man
Nicely done with a brain challenge!
Thank you, Lisa
Well! Woman walks into a bar… creates quite a scene. No, you created quite a scene. Well done sir.
(Sorry for my tardiness, I keep getting sidetracked, like a school marm on vacation)
NP
(Expect to see more of Starr Tudor* in future Sixes. Trying to interleave Sixes with the narrative of the serial story… the Reader can have flash with their real story reading)
* of the ice fortune Tudors. Frederic Tudor made his fortune selling New England ice to (wealthy) people in the Caribbean.