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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
It is hosted by Denise and has a strict Six Sentence Limit
Speaking of ‘Penny Dreadfuls’, Tom and I are writing a Serial Six Sentence Story: ‘…of Heroes and the MisUnderstood‘.
This Six below is meant to follow Tom’s most recent ‘Old Friends, New Friends‘
Prompt word:
GRAIN
“Moonbeam, seeing how you already made the drive up here from Shogun International Airport,” Rue DeNite stood on the sill of the open right-front passenger door of the SUV in which she and Moonbeam had arrived at Mooncross Industries, an unfortunate thirty minutes late.
Addressing the small group gathered in the parking lot, she looked first at Rocco, her erstwhile bodyguard and putative lover; then Isla, the young mercenary hired to kidnap them from their Airbnb in a posh London suburb; some guy named Alex; and finally, Moonbeam, a member of something called the Co-ordination of Supervillains and suitor wannabe.
Rue’s expression, which could be accurately, albeit poetically, described as, ‘the texture and grain of extreme exhaustion, writ in flesh’, dared them to ask what airport she was talking about, “What say we get Rocco to drive, give him something to do with his hands and I’ll sit in back and get to know our little home-invader, Isla, a little better.”
“Sounds good, Rue,” Moonbeam, sounding tired, in a PTSD sort of way, slid behind the wheel and on the final ‘thunk’ of a closing door, gravel-crunched the vehicle down the hill and onto the highway back to Reykjavik.
[GCHQ London Branch]
“Watch Supervisor Colonel Villicus, you have a call from Number 10 on Line 23.” Reflexively nodding assent to the disembodied voice, Mrs Villicus’s son removed a handset from a locked enclosure and intoned first words of the introductory rites of the Security and Surveillance State, “Yes sir?”
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I like the club Co-ordination of Supervillains and suitor wannabe. :)
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Nice description of “Yes, sir” as the “first words of the introductory rites of the Security and Surveillance Stat”.
The phrase “accurately, albeit poetically” sounded almost contradictory until it occurred to me that if it isn’t poetical it is likely not fully accurate.
thanks, Frank!
Excellently descriptive and I really like Frank’s observation.
lol (a good laugh, as I just finished with a Reply to Frank’s Comment… a long comment aka description of the SSC&B
This part of describing Rue’s expression “…the texture and grain of extreme exhaustion, writ in flesh’,…”, is an outstanding use of the prompt word.
Who is mystery caller number 10?
damn! that was my fault (it was an overly subtle* reference to Number 10 Downing St. London)
*aka not good writing
‘Curiouser and curiouser’!
;)
From Number 10, eh? I wonder if Larry-the-Cat has sussed out the auto-dial feature.
Dude!
(Don’t tell anyone, but the price of getting to hang out with you and the others, what with your totally-intimidating writing chops is I’ve totally gotten comfortable with googling references in Comments. Out of necessity, yo. Serially, the fun of seeing references (wrapped in inferences inside…*) in these here comments here… totally worthwhile.)
compliments on your story involving the SSC&B next week surely will be interesting
please, spread the word like a parents-on-an-overseas-cruise party …. (lol as you see in my Reply to Frank, I like the idea of sharing the description of the Café I believe that having that allows people to write themselves in… you having such a good grasp of the joint as demonstrated in your …Intersection Named after an English King and a Saint serial Six
bono facilitano
* stop! clark… don’t even try! lol
Sentence 5, the description of an expression, is 5-Star, BRAVO.
Thank you, L