Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Managed, (like, barely, given the tendency of some participants to hurl words, clip phrase and generally try to incite rhetorical mayhem each week), by Denise, this is one of our contributions to the party. In this instance, a Tale from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.
This week’s prompt word:
EDGE
The tall, thin man sat at his desk, the sound of the band on stage in the Café pounded on the door to the Manager’s office like a pillow-fight in a padded cell.
“Are you going to work all night?’
The contralto voice, softly-hued tentacles moving seductively through the evening-dim light, was nearly as much one of warning as beckoning. A self-assured invitation with an aftertaste of threat, her words sought a part of the man to which few were afforded access, at least, without a cost that well exceeded the price.
A non-specific source above the desk introduced a change in the light-dark topography of the man’s face; contrasting edges softened, shadows enhanced and, like sudden movement in the corner of the eye, something moved closer to the surface, resulting in a trompe l’oeil more likely to inspire regret than pleasure.
A truism passed down through the ages of Man maintains that it’s the dying of the light that gives birth to the night, yet, as the tall man moved with deceptive grace towards the leather sofa set before a fireplace with an azurite mantle, one could be forgiven for preferring the belief that it was the voracious daylight that consumed the fertile night, the better to maintain dominion over the human world.
About clarkscottroger
It seems I may have a specific door to safeguard from any disturbing attempt of entry this night!
Please, do tell…
lol
None of us have anything to fear from any of our fellow Proprietors (and further, seeing how, bottom line we’re are possessed of equal strength/power/coolth)… nothin to be concerned about.
Now, if you’re asking on the account of normal humans and/or quasi-human lifeforms… that a different matter!
TT…Clark…who said anything about the Proprietors?
I object, your honor…Leading!🤣
lol
But serially, not that I’m thinking of the tall, thin man exclusively but part of the fun/challenge of this writing thing is characters who are not simply good or bad. Can’t think of any movie characters… wait. I take that back, Raymond Reddington (Blacklist) as a character possesses that complex depth that someday I’ll have the skill to write.
I am enjoying the many layers of the Bistro.
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There’s definitely something hidden within that transition from day to night, Clark, which brings out the worst or the best in people… the darkness within the light, or the light within the darkness… it’s the same at the other end, as night becomes day. One seems to focus on the shadows, the other the highlights. Neither truly good nor bad, but a mixture of both. It’s that balance, or lack of, that moulds the character and drives their story. As the writers, we try to get it down as best we can, but the characters always have control.
Now, where did all that come from?
definitely an example of ‘Dayism’… lol not just that there is near universal bias against night (sure, there is a solid case of getting killed at night/in the dark than safely in the daylight) Just dislike cultural imperatives that are so fundamental as to raise eyebrows when they’re mentioned
ya know?
lol
but back to that matter of characters (fictional)… the ideal character is a personable sociopath… to be unencumbered by the restraints that most of us labor under (see above so ingrained as to no longer being noticeable)
I think the tall, thin mad might reveal himself to be more as the mythos develops.
“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.” Proverbs 30:18-19
yow (your words in the Café world, increasingly amazing)
great Bible reference – fits well with the story.
Thank you
I’m drawn in… definitely. Great visuals, great atmosphere… and a mystery guest.
(and later, a mention of RR)
than you, Chris