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 with one thing on her mind: sentence count (Hint: rhymes with Six)
Prompt word:
REMOTE
“Hello?”
If one wanted a specific, though not overly-comprehensive, insight into how the tall, thin man related himself to the world around him, the interrogative appendage to his query, stepping from the darkening hallway at the far-end of the bar, would’ve spoken volumes.
“I’d swear this place was crowded with Proprietors and guests,” Lips pressed into a non-committal expression, (another classic tell), he walked past the small stage to a round wooden table upon which was a laptop, a remote control and a high-quality embossed white card, “Press Me” in simple but elegant script.
Looking around the empty Café, the thought, ‘Better safe than sorry’ intruded, serving double duty as both a cautionary admonition and a suitable, if not regrettable, inscription on, say, an anniversary watch or, perhaps, in thrall to a fit of congenital irony, the transom of a sailboat; the Proprietor pushed the red button on the remote.
A live video feed lit the display screen, a title scrolling up “Live and Remote… as opposed to Remote and Alive… the Travels of the Four Proprietae: Chris and Mimi, jenne and… Denise…” music from the seventies began to play.
Somewhere on the far side of the globe, the Raconteuse sat at a wrought iron table on the edge of a formal garden in the gathering dusk, smiled, waved and said, ” Jenne, Denise and Mimi, just left, they should be home soon. Don’t leave the kitchen a mess now.”
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A scene created in layers and tight-fitting wedges and a round table, colours not even mentioned but clearly visible, and of course the final instruction which for heaven’s sake goes without saying.
That is why I call him “Master Weaver”, M.
Very apropos.
it was fun*
*(Tony Montana ‘Scarface’)
Always good advice when you don’t know when the others will be back: “Don’t leave the kitchen a mess now”
lol and given the source, will be heeded!
Tidying up is appreciated, an already empty kitchen sink is much easier to scrub and sanitize.
as you wish
We know where we went – the four of us.
(ps we loved listening to 10cc)
fun it was (to write)
Hm…where’d I read something about “ripple effect”, lol
Thoroughly enjoyed Chris’s Six. Yours, Clark? Well, damn if you didn’t just put icing on a cake we didn’t know we had.
Excellent bit of storytelling and kudos on the soundtrack.
ty yo