Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host.

A story of precisely six sentence in length, based on the week’s prompt word.

Prompt word:

TARDY

Two words: she’s gone.

A pause, little more than a flutter, so far within as to be without, serves as reminder you’ve stopped; utterly without hope of avoiding the descent away from everything good and real.

The view ahead is clear between here and the near-horizon, life’s pacing of minutes and hours, days and years. There’s another view, one beyond that; it’s lights beckon to a place of the heart, where the stars, one warm, summer’s morning, tore themselves from the earth and fled outwards.

The mind is a tardy mourner in its choice that death is a single event, to be remembered and studied at another time.

The heart, however, is incapable of being late in its attendance to loss, embracing both the present and the past, where the world and what matters lives in a timeless place.

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