Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Denise is the host, and informs us, the only hard and fast rule is the total number of sentences. Six.
Blame Ford for (his) recent Sixes, written in the key of creepy, combined with our own penchant for matchcover-academia, which left us spending far too much time reading up on ‘the Unreliable Narrator’. We trust we’ll get it out of our system straight-away and return to ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ next week.
We think.
(No, the image at the top of this post has nothing, as far as I know, to do with the following Six. It was, just that, when I first came across it yesterday, I was all, “Where have I been, this story, I haven’t heard, already!”)
Prompt word:
ƎVITAИЯƎT⅃A * ALTERNATIVE
(Let’s see, last week we posted the next installment of ‘Anya Claireaux, P.I.‘, that means we need to continue our historical-fantasy serial, Eve’s Étude, how difficult can that be?)
Sister Abbott looked at the mound of homespun blankets, the shape of the body hard to distinguish, the bloodstains impossible; the memory of the terminal whimper of pain, earnest supplication to no avail, brought a smile to her lips. Like the endless subvocal howl of the birth of the cosmos, the echo of momentarily-sated hunger lightened her step and heighten her senses, now moving through the dust-cloaked streets of Tangier, alert for a certain sign on the pisé de terre wall at the dark end of Rue le Jour.
(Wait a minute… where’s the sense of the, hidden-in-plain-sight, atmosphere surrounding Abbott and her cohorts, maybe it’d help to have another caffeine cake and some water; too much time last night with The Rhetoric Book, seeking the secret of the Unreliable Narrator; still, there’s a disturbance in the Force, that makes all this feel…somehow, subversive.)
“Inspector Anselm, fancy meeting you here, in the Medina; we know you have him in one of Scotland Yard’s safe-houses, hand him over now and all concerned will fare better, well, except, of course, for the good Professor Egmont,” Sister Abbott, in an apparent nod to Islamic influences, wore a kirpan hung from a belt of amber beads, cinching the waist of an otherwise flowing robe.
(This is really not going anywhere, and I still haven’t plugged in the Prompt word, better check the dictionary, maybe get some inspiration,
al·ter·na·tive
/ôlˈtərnədiv/adjective: (of one or more things) available as another possibility
noun: one of two or more available possibilities
…uh oh.)
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I believe the word the kids use today is “epic”. Loved it :)
Great as always. How”d you get the letters backwards!
thanks, Paul
used
https://lingojam(dot)com/MirrorYourText
Ikr! Looks so cool!
Aha, we meet your ‘inner critic’… or perhaps it is the ghost who walks through Ford’s words.
Suspect we all live in a room full of mirrors
The alternate world of the Order of Lilth is always a pleasure to visit.
My messy mind wouldn’t translate so well. Excellent!
lol (that makes two of us) (…Spoiler Alert! The italics was me, thinking about writing this Six. The non-italics are pieces of a serial story I would write if all that characters quit their jobs (from the ‘real’ serial stories) and demanded to be given a part in a new tale… I think Brother Anselm makes a convincing Inspector from Scotland Yard, don’t you?)
I like how you were able to slide the prompt word in at the end.
Sometimes the most fun is placement of (the prompt).
Don’t tell anyone, but this is one of the few times I done a Six, built from the start, around the prompt word! lol
Caffeine cake. Insomnia makes me think I had a slice. Well done.
Thank you, Lisa
Well, Clark, I guess that was the alternative approach…
I know, right?
Like my boy, Omar once said, ‘The moving finger writes and having writ moves on…and who does that finger really belong to?!’
Noooo! Down the rabbit hole I go, trying to reverse text. The link tells me it isn’t available to me and now I absolutely want to do it! Sigh!
I really like the stream-of-consciousness story. Great way to slip in the prompt word too.
thanks
(you probably noticed, but the link I gave to Paul was deliberately not complete. there is a ‘(dot)’ instead of ‘.’ (as in something-something .com)
try it with the dot instead of the (dot)