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May 12, 2023 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr the rules are nearly as simple (at the same time a bit more liberating) as those of the Six Sentence b’hop:

  • take the week’s photo as your prompt
  • write a story
  • do not exceed two hundred and fity words

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

 

Prompt photo:

The blue sky refuses to succor, it’s hue neither morning-hope nor nighttime’s-end,

I don’t have much time.

Distractions that were once a brand, (both in the 21st C marketing’s fashion and in the literal sense of belonging to), fall away like unruly children at a birthday party after the clown has left the room,

I don’t have much time.

Regrets and recriminations, disappointments and disillusion turn and look forward, deprived of their duty to inform me of the road ahead, deprived of appreciation, are but another unimportant detail to the view ahead,

I don’t have much time.

A lifetime of teachings, both false and harmful, true and harmless, do as little to help my decision-process as a deaf-mute studio audience in a cancelled sitcom, ratings and applause impotent,

I don’t have much time.

The scene remains unchanged, past becomes present, the future irrelevant; a torn fragment of  something not as glorious, (and, surely welcomed), as Understanding and neither is it the slowly rising terror at nightmare’s endlessly dark opening door, (surely a relief),

I don’t have much time.

Nothing changes, everything is different; Life is endless and death a step on an endless staircase.

I don’t need anymore time.

 

 

 

 

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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

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  1. jenne49 says:
    May 12, 2023 at 9:01 am

    A thoughtful and though-provoking story, Clark, with your signature descriptions.
    The repitition of ‘I don’t have much time’ punctuates it nicely, leading to what I see as the defiant conclusion, ‘I don’t need anymore time’.
    Good story.
    (And thanks for sorting my evening’s viewing.
    Whisper it not, but I’ve never seen The Rocky Horror Show!
    And have just found it on a free channel.)

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      May 13, 2023 at 12:04 pm

      As I may have mentioned in a comment… this was one of those ‘one take’ stories. the freedom of SOC and all, no?
      thanks

  2. ladysighs says:
    May 13, 2023 at 7:37 am

    :)

  3. messymimi says:
    May 13, 2023 at 7:52 pm

    Sometimes it’s not more time but better use if it which is important.

  4. GirlieOnTheEdge says:
    May 13, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    “…after the clown has left the room…” Damn.

    This piece reads (and sounds) like pure poetry, not (a) story. Yet more than that, this sounded in my head (it was quite excellent, btw) like a spoken word piece.

    What was it ceayr would say…”chapeau”.

  5. Chris Hall says:
    May 15, 2023 at 10:52 am

    Good story!