Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
It is hosted by Denise.
It has one rule: a) use the week’s prompt word and 2) keep it to six sentences, no more and no less.
This week the word is:
CRYSTAL
He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.
‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”
Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.
There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”
Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”
About clarkscottroger
Wild one today! Have to agree – ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”
Great vid and appropros, but then I’m partial to the Ramones :D
Thank you!
Wow. Be careful what you ask to see!
yeah, I know… too bad magic comes at such a cost
I shall never see a tripod in the same way.
Whether or not the woman deserved the comment, whether or not it is polite or appropriate, yeah, post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground is a good one. And it makes that final scene and her smug final word all the more special.
Cool.
there’s a monkey’s paw to every lesson we are taught as children, no?
The Ramones were enough…but you gave more. Well done. Dude! Well done.
I got (the idea of The Ramones) from something I saw on ‘the Facebook’… something to do with the year being 2020 lol
The two scenes (the painting above and the video below) make perfect bookends for your SSS and also depict a great contrast for your SSS.
I wonder if he will try that again and if he thought the price was right. HaHa
I really enjoy the way, sometimes, the photos add a certain element to the written story.
Woooooweeeeee! A goodun!
lol ty