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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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Six Sentence Story

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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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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

Comments

  1. So true. There’s nothing to add to this.

  2. The totality of your offering…I have only feeling, no words.
    I can identify, I can empathize.
    Thank you for this Six.

  3. Lisa Tomey says:

    Taking this in and enriching my soul with knowing my feelings are understood.

  4. UP says:

    to steal a phrase, “Yo!”
    Spot on.

  5. phyllis0711 says:

    Wow – perfect!!

  6. Pat Brockett says:

    Wow. I read this several times, just letting the words and feelings sink in. Beautiful.

  7. *SOB*
    You nailed this Six for sure. “The heart, however, is incapable of being late in its attendance to loss…” OMG so so true.

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