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, dominated by the Rule of Six

Prompt Word:

LINK

“What the hell is this thing?”

The ‘thing’ was a black-plastic square about three inches on a side, thin enough to flap out-of-plane when held by fingers that displayed, on each finger nail, lacquered figures and designs of an intricacy to make Jan van Eyck weep in despair at his own ambitions.

“You found it!”

The man considered a variety of necessary kinesthetic strategies involved in rising from his current posture sitting on the floor of the bedroom; most were graceful and sublimely athletic in form, motion and execution, fortunately he remembered the missing link in the complete sequence, i.e. being as young as his companion.

“What’s with all the concentric grooves?” Even as her voice ski-jumped up the interrogative slope, her phone began to glow and blush like a teenager trying not to appear their age, “It’s like an old-fashioned record, a ‘forty-five’ at least according to Wikipedia; whatever that means.”

The man rose with what a person of comparable age might consider a reckless disregard for physical consequences, “The Lady, you’ve found the recording from my old college Psych text book, my god!”

Seeing the expression on the girl’s face, he hastily added, “Not for nothin’ but there are sects among the ambiguously religious that hold the belief that Adam did not complete the first task God assigned to him, that is, naming all the animals and fowls and everything in the world; some say he was distracted by the appearance of Eve, his second wife, which the Creator had surprised him with in what many consider the first instance of regifting.

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