Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise it offers a challenge, to all those so inclined, to write a story of exactly six sentences in length. The week’s prompt word must, of course, figure into the story.
Prompt word:
FARE
You smile with a confidence you can almost picture, You’ve got this, you think as you stare at the screen.
There, one down and Six to go.
And this makes three, a frown, really only a tiny line in an otherwise impressively broad forehead, like the hint of a prism flashing immediately after the crystalline click of a pebble on your uh… mental …uh …windshield.
You used this Second Person POV schtick once before, ain’t fair, whispers a familiar slightly-rodential voice; Fuck you, an over-caffeinated shout jumps from a corner you’d swear wasn’t there a moment ago; barely a second later you hear, in tones of gentle wisdom, Right Intention is one of the Eight Noble Truths is… ENOUGH! both voices chorus, We’ve used up the allotment of semi-colons, do something.
You recount the preceding periods when suddenly the word ‘penultimate’ pops into your head with all the grace of a drunk barging back into the party after an hour passed-out on the front lawn, ‘The word’ he slurs managing the seemingly impossible feat of melding the ‘TH’ to the ‘RD’ sounds, is FARE!
When you ride you pay the fare, the first voice intones; Allman Brothers 1970 Fuck yeah! the rambunctious voice claims the end of the final sentence; the third, who had a thoroughly perplexing but cool-sounding comment all ready to go decides dharma can wait another day.
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Cleverly entertaining 6!
Why is it always 3. Sentences that is! I almost always run into the road block at 3.
Nothing like some ‘Brothers in the am. And what excellent bass. Put in those earbuds if not, put on the headphones😁
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Allman Brothers – you could have stopped there. Great blues band. Georgia proud. Good six yo!
total fan (back in the day, of course)
that’s a clever story :)
Thank you
Some days you have to take whatever sentences your brain will give you. Clever!
yeah, right? Thanks M
Counting down, upside down and all around, bound to catch some kind of sound and bam, you gots to six! Fun read!
lol yeah… get going and then, all you have to do is, write yourself out of it. (Many an early Doctrine post written that way)
Ha! That’s how it goes sometimes. Yep, this six sentence thing sure gets the semi colons some air time. Well, you did it again. Hey, one more here is six. Have a good day.
Hate to get all metagragphic but, have you looked closely at a semi-colon?! it’s made to; stumble;….forward.
Ah; I see!
lol
Awesome six! I saw the Allman Brothers in concert at Red Rocks in high school with a friend’s parents. They changed “Mississippi Moon” to “Colorado Moon” and well, the crowd went wild. OH WAIT. Crap. The was the Doobie Brothers. Shoot. Still, awesome six.
I think I saw them one time, back when Carter was running for president. Pretty sure it was them… but that would be the mid-seventies, god-knows what bands I saw.
thanks, yo
The Allman Brothers were one of my favorite bands way back when. Great six!
thanks, Susan