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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (A Café Six)

June 30, 2022 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise

Last time at the Café

This week’s prompt word:

STRIKE

The helicopter rose from the rooftop, it’s circular down-draft buffeting the shoulders of the three men standing together in a pattern that implied bonds both recent and timeless. The machine paused, as if to strike a pose, the better to remind the humanity below of its progress beyond the days of fixed wings and desperate prayers.

One of the three, the Sophomore, ran towards the dark rectangle hollowed-out of the brick stairwell; the downward angle of his torso as he moved shouted defiant submission at the blades rending the air above the building.

One of the two, Tom, walked with measured strides to the edge of the rooftop, his left arm crooked to his head in the most 21st Century of poses, cell phone against his ear, both talisman and charm as he spoke; the sound of his words offered up after the Proprietor, already little but a swatch of red hair on a white blanket showing through the plexiglass door of the craft.

The last of the three, even before the bright yellow star on the tail section disappeared among the urban canyons and buttes, climbed the wrought-iron staircase up to what Chris took joy in calling, ‘the Penthouse’ and stepped into the room.

The tall, thin man, stared at the slate blackboard, the tray along it’s bottom edge with colored chalk in varied sizes giving it the appearance of broken abacus, written in across the center, in a hand both controlled and hasty, the words: ‘Saul of Tarsus’, ‘the Order of Lilith’ and a series of numbers, at once mnemonic, while random, somehow disturbing.

 

 

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clarkscottroger About clarkscottroger
Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

Comments

  1. UP says:
    June 30, 2022 at 8:39 am

    my retirement was such a let down I went out on sick leave and never went back. good post dude

  2. jenne49 says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:25 pm

    Neat working in of two stories, Clark. And great descriptions as ever.

  3. Spira says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    Master Weaver…

  4. phyllis0711 says:
    June 30, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    I always enjoy the tall, thin man.

  5. ceayr says:
    June 30, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    I thought for a horrified moment or two that I understood this, then I was saved by the last paragraph!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      June 30, 2022 at 5:30 pm

      lol

      ‘Don’t tell anyone, but that last sentagraph* was my trying to get all authoristic on the process… to make for an intriguing ending.
      aiyyee
      Best I stick to the old stream of consciousness writing… hell it got me through grad school and three quarters of the ‘seventies

      *yeah, lets both trying using that term and see how many people notice it’s not a ‘real’ word…

  6. messymimi's meanderings says:
    July 1, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    Sentagraph needs to be a new word.

  7. ladysighs says:
    July 2, 2022 at 5:39 am

    :)