Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
The Maiden Stone, also known as the Drumdurno Stone after the nearby farm, is a Pictish standing stone near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, probably dating to the 9th century AD.
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Denise is the host.
Six sentences are required.
As is often the case with story ideas, this week’s was the product of following a (characteristically?) meandering path through the virtual used bookstore/library-without-walls that is the internet. One way or another I found myself encountering the ancient Scottish legend of the Maiden Stone.
This week’s prompt word:
ATMOSPHERE
“You can put the granite down, Lucifer, she’s now well beyond your reach.”
The man spoke with an authority that sounded recently acquired, the effect detracting from what should have been an overwhelming beauty; very much like an insecure man, convinced a bow tie would provide an intellectual gravitas manages to undercut his actual strengths.
“It was a joke, I was simply looking for company, although I must say that, for a race created to be superior to all but Him, these humans are either not very bright or blinded by arrogance; seriously, do you even know the terms of our wager?” Possessed of a form that stole beauty from the artist’s carefully equipped studio, the Morningstar presented qualities that weren’t so much on display as poorly hidden, his eyes looked out from a place where madness and genius entwined, writhing in a never-ending passion to either destroy or possess the other.
“Michael, brother, tell whoever it is that pretends to have His ear these days, that he simply must stop punishing his creations for responding to my efforts to connect with them; they are, when you think about it, still family,” a smile touched the man’s eyes and immediately plummeted into a dark abyss of ambition and hope.
“A pervasive atmosphere of existential fear is hardly conducive to the efforts of these humans to develop to their full potential.”
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Shazam! That’s one sizzLing six!
lol thanks, Lisa! it was fun to write
“…an authority that sounded recently acquired…” we all know that guy. Good six. You always pack a lot into these.
thanks, man
Excellent!
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“…when you think about it, still family,…” – so true.
To be creative and alive, one has to ignore fear.
…or hiding out from it.
lol
Doctrine Tip: ‘the Everything Rule’ states that ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.
This rule offsets a tendency to attribute certain attitudes, inclinations, desires, drives and occupations to one of the three worldviews over the other two. Example: ‘thats really a scottian thing to do’.
The Everything Rule reminds us that we, each of us, are still human in a common world despite our personal realities being decidedly different (i.e. clarks live as Outsiders, scotts grab life as do predators and rogers enjoy the certitude of the Herd Member). We all do the same things, it’s just that it, (the aforementioned attitudes, inclinations etc), manifest differently in each of the three predominant worldviews.
On creativity: clarks are the truly creative ones, bringing into existence things that which was not here before; rogers are of the Re-assembly School of Creativity, producing novel (and popular) works and scotts… well, scotts just make you want enjoy it (whatever they’re doing). lol
Well, damn! Really enjoyed this one, so much in fact, it hurled me down the google rabbit hole :D
So much to learn as so much unknown :)
yeah, it was fun
Fascinating way to view creation and the Creator.
thank you, Mimi
This is brilliant – “Possessed of a form that stole beauty from the artist’s carefully equipped studio, the Morningstar presented qualities that weren’t so much on display as poorly hidden, his eyes looked out from a place where madness and genius entwined, writhing in a never-ending passion to either destroy or possess the other.”
Thank you, Reena