Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘
A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.
to wit:
“Man, this is messed up.”
“I know, right?”
“Hey, our job is to keep the line moving; souls get freed from earthly bodies and present themselves for Judgement.
“Well, there’s a problem, look at this place, what do you see?”
“Job security?”
“Funny, you are.”
“What do you propose, stop helping the dead piece together their life histories? Let them wander the endless corridors of the Mall of All. That’s not the Plan. That’s giving up and then we’ll have a problem.”
“Well, I say we tell Him. He can’t know how bad things have gotten, how far off the Path things are.”
“Oh shit!”
“Him?!”
“No, worse, the Morningstar.”
“Goddamn!”
“No time for prayers, look busy!”
“How in what’s His name’s Name am I to punish the evil when Purgatory is clogged with these… lazy agnostics and aimless Millennials?”
“Sorry, Sir. We’re doing the best we can helping them organize their individual curriculum vitae. It’s just that in the last fifty years… they’ve all, seemed to…”
“Become liberal arts majors?”
“No one recognizes an objective Virtue, an independent Good. They barely avoided self-extinction last century, but then, along came the Internet.”
“Your Boss should’ve gotten to that Mark fellow and had him insert an Eighth Sign of the End Times; maybe after Famine but somewhere before Defection of False Believers… come to think of it, maybe there are only Seven. Well, keep ’em moving. Despite the myth, I don’t have eternity.”
“Yes, Mr. Samael, Sir.”
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About clarkscottroger
Fabulous, Clark, satirical and funny.
Special mention to ‘How in what’s His name’s Name’!
thanks, c
Hits close to home, I’d say.
ikr?
Brilliant and humorous, Clark.
thankee
That’s a fun show!
Best line …. “became liberal arts majors?”
Excellent video.
It’s a hat trick!
thank you, Nancy
👍🏼 😎
Good one, Clark. Love the voices, and chuckling at the fun phrases: ‘The Mall of All’, ‘lazy agnostics and aimless Millennials’.
Lots more – very entertaining.
It was a fun one to write (once I had the Morningstar walk on)
Clear cut, clever and darkly comical, Clark.
Your satire hits religion and fence-sitters alike.
‘Liberal arts majors’ – hm… No, it’s fine, I’ve forgotten most of what I learned there!
I’m a simple soul really – I like ‘the Mall of All’ – and many other of your words besides.
The whole story is a triumph, Sir.
(I got mine somewhere in a box in the attic… no regrets for choice of degree)
alluding to Margaret below, having Lucifer put in an appearance made it fun (and, in the way of some characters. allowed me to hear certain lines, if not tones, to the story)
Like Lilith in the Six Sentence Story… the confident-to-the-point-of-being-aggressive Outsiders are always fun and result in a better story, no?
Considering the stuff of the Eternal, eh? Somehow, envisioning The sorting room to Hell as a run down shopping mall is eminently spot on!
ikr?
Wow, Clark! What a great take on the prompt and awesome story. Really creative writing. Loved it.
Thank you, Miz Carlson