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 is premised on the notion that everyone wants to take a prompt word and write a six, (no more and no less), sentence story around it.
This week, the prompt word is:
HUNCH
“Tell us where they have taken the girl and you will be amply rewarded,” The archbishop, clerical rank immunizing him from politeness and consideration, exalted in the presence of a curl to his lip; surely it seemed to say, given the appearance of this man before me, this is a right judgement. Assembled in the nave, the gathered authorities looked upon the man, escorted by the coterie of gendarmes, city officials and clergy, with disdain that had ambitions of hatred.
Down through the years, old Parisians, perhaps as an unconscious accounting of the wondrous events that marked a life drawing to close, told the young people, who, the wiser among them seeking the tales of the old, the better to arm themselves as the path opened before them, about that afternoon in de Notre Dame de París.
The stories vary in the re-telling; sometimes they include the archbishop having a palsy of the hand, an affliction gestated by dark practices, (at least as the nuns and acolytes whispered among themselves); other versions concentrate on the jewels that seemed to glow on the altar behind where he sat upon his cathedra.
All recounting of this particular day include how the sunlight, barricaded behind iron clouds, broke free and, finding a sole pane of unstained glass, created a bright nimbus around the bent shape of the subject of the archbishop’s interrogation.
Straightening himself more than he had since he could remember, Quasimodo smiled with a glint of defiance and said,
“I don’t know, but I do have a hunch.”
About clarkscottroger
Epic my brother. Now I’ll have stayin’ alive in my head all day long. Good job.
Thanks, Paul… at least you know I do not inflict it without suffering the scourge as well
lol
Well done!
Thank you, Susan
Ha! Wait for it wait for it and then- the hunch line.
Well delivered, Sir Clark.
Thanks, Miz Avery
You do a great job making the characters become real, another great religious story.
Oh, that was classic!
lol yes, ma’am
Well executed!
Thank you, Lisa
This character seems to be making the rounds here in our SSS circle this week. Well done!
How could one not?
thanks
(I for one, will not, repeat not, click play on that song, lol. No ear worms for me tonight)
Enjoyable, well written Six with an ending I did not see coming. The last line being the pièce de résistance :)
That was masterfully done, Clark. The suspense building to a climax and then the punch life for relief. Great six.
Thanks, Len. Was fun to write.