Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story
Hosted by Denise
Here’s the previous installment, to help, you know, get in the mood. Click here.
This week’s prompt word:
KEY
‘The key to truly enjoying membership in the ‘Mile High Club,’ Stacey Whitelaw smiled as she settled back into her compartment in the Emirates A380, ‘is to be alone, it so decreases the chances of disappointment.’
Though the plane’s accommodations were to steerage class on a Lufthansa 747, as a Fabergé Egg was to a L’eggs hosiery container, sleep eluded her. Despite the default prejudgment inspired by her abundant blonde hair and runway model looks, her mind was not always an ally; Stacey found it difficult to silence, ‘Annabelle Lecture’, the name she’d given the voice in her head since serving out her adolescence at Miss Porter’s School.
Staring at the text on her phone did little to help, other than to regret not getting any higher than she had, thirty minutes after takeoff.
‘It’s that fuckin club or bistro or whatever the hell they called it’; Annabelle was cut off by a voice sifting through the air, suggesting that if all her needs had otherwise been met, the plane would soon be landing at Logan International airport; her basic plan to ‘Find the young student and do something to help’ seemed vaguely insufficient.
Regrettably her typical approach to relationship problem-solving, ‘What’s the problem, let me know when you’re over it so we can go back to having fun’ was not producing the desired affect, i.e. ‘no worries’; Stacey Whitelaw began to suspect her problem wasn’t entirely with the cute-bordering-adorable, college student, but with her recently discovered…concern.
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About clarkscottroger
Do I detect that the Sophomore, or his alter ego, or both (no, surely not) is about to be in for a ‘high old time’?
That would not surprise me… but, there’s something afoot with the Sophomore that may come to pass before Miz Whitelaw can ride to the rescue
I like how being alone “decreases the chances of disappointment”. “No worries” is a desirable effect not often achieved by what we think might help.
Thanks, Frank
Master Weaver…knew why I named thee.
you are the word master
good to see you back on the circuit
“Annabelle Lecture” is brilliant.
lol. thanks M
Dang, a cliff hanger at 30,000 feet. Now I gotta know what this concern is.
yeah, me too!
lol
Great opener. She is not wrong, lol But let’s cut to the chase…”but with her recently discovered… concern.” Now just stop it! Those 3 little … after “discovered” – cliff hanger anyone!?.
Sounds like someone’s gotten unaccountably hooked…uh oh!
idr?
(Extra points for interpreting the ‘concern’ as the threat of affection)