Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
It is hosted by Denise.
She provides a new prompt word each week.
You write a story of six (and only six) sentences employing the above mentioned prompt word.
This week, the prompt word is:
Question
“Class, the first que…” the collective imagination of the fifth grade at St. Dominiques swayed like lace curtains at an open window, held captive, but not prisoner.
“Sister Margaret, I have a ques…” from the back of the classroom, wrist and elbow clearly at cross-purposes, a boy’s hand sank and rose, as tentative as his voice.
“Here we go again, Silent Zachariah with his endless q…” preadolescence relationships, as baking mud pies and cardboard spaceships are to mature romance; in the Battle of the Sexes; the stakes have not yet been established for either side, remains a game of the innocent.
“Remember, children, there is no such thing as a stupid quest…”
“Yeah except when asked by a certified dweeb…”
“Oh good, Clarice, you just provided the exception to the rule…” Twenty-three fifth grade children began to laugh; after a moment they were joined by the novitiate nun, Clarice and Zachariah at her side, one holding on possessively, the other shyly; both laughing.
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Sister Margaret Ryan. A very likable character. More than meets the eye with that one :)
Thank you for the peek through the open window….
yw
Well painted my man. Well painted. I love the lace curtain, held captive but not prisoner. Very very heady and literary. Also who’s not a Book of Love lover?
Fun to visit with old friends (Sr Margaret Ryan)
Sister Margaret is, understandably, a well-loved teacher.
totally agree
My husband went to Catholic school and the horor stories he’s told me … Sister Margaret doesn’t fit his explantions at all.
They, the Catholic school stories are all true (personal experience), that said, Sister Margaret Ryan is one of the good ones.
(She is the lead character in my first completed novel(not yet published) ‘Blog Dominion’ And is one of my favorite characters. To paraphrase her from this week’s Six ‘to every rule, there is an exception’)
She’d have been my favorite teacher.
Totally
Quite a six there, teeming with images: lace curtains, nuns, carboard spaceships, a classroom full of kids. Love how you never complete the word questi… :)
(Don’t tell anyone, but I thought to myself, I thought, “If I did it right, the Readers will think the word into place… if properly prompted.”)
:-)
Return smile
Well done 6!!
Thank you, Lisa
Get there. Always good to see Sister Margaret. Looks like school’s open around here. A welcome respite.
Agreed, she (Sister Margaret Ryan) is one of all-time favorite ‘imaginary’ people.
I loved being able to “see” your SSS! Oh, those preadolescent relationships at such odds with one another! Great SSS.
Thank you, Pat
Catholic-schooled all my life and I found no horrible nuns anywhere. Quite loved them all, actually. Book of Love – good one.
Mix for me (in my parochial experience) like the rest of life, I guess. Sister Margaret Ryan, and the other nuns at St Dominiques, surely are, in part, a conglomeration of the nuns I encountered between 3rd and 6th grades