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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

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, governed by a single rule (that stories be of six sentences in length, no more and no less)

Prompt Word:

CLOSE

The interior of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro was quiet, in that secret way experienced in an elementary school classroom in mid-July or the darkened car’s backseat on the tail end of a good second date. Halfway along the longest interior wall of the club was a small stage; invisible to the casual eye was a very sophisticated lighting system and a genuinely remarkable sound system, all awaiting the occasional jazz trio, poet-on-the-rise or up-and coming comedian.

Stepping up the three wooden steps, the tall, thin man removed his suit coat and carefully draping the Dege & Skinner label over the top of the solitary mic stand he put a pack of Benson & Hedges and a glass of ginger ale on the stool; facing the dark room, he shaded his eyes as if trying to see beyond the spotlight that drew his shadow on the brick wall behind him and with a laugh aimed at this feet spoke with an air of sharing a confidence with a close friend.

“A blonde walks into a library and says in a loud voice, ‘I want a cheeseburger and fries, please.’ The librarian leans forward and quietly tells the blonde, ‘This is a library, miss.’ The blonde replies, ‘Oh sorry,’ and whispers, ‘I want a cheeseburger and fries, please.'”

Turning at the sound clapping in the dark, audience-right, the Proprietor held up his right hand, “Sorry, we’re closed.”

From a table against the far wall, a Chivas and Corona laugh elbowed it’s way towards the stage, “If I fuckin’ wanted to sit in a crowd of young men trying their nightclub moves on a sorority sister or watch a buncha Knights of the Order of Viagra try to keep their lances up, I woulda stayed at my own joint, ya know what I’m saying?”

 

 

 

 

 

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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. phyllis says:

    Delightful – laughed a few times.
    Thank you

  2. Very funny Six!
    And who is that heckler in the dark but one of my favorite characters.

  3. Violet Lentz says:

    Sounds like the patron was just trying to get some quality alone time. Looks like he did not achieve his goal. Great six Clark.

  4. Spira says:

    When the Gatekeeper is away, sharks play.

  5. Frank Hubeny says:

    That’s a great blonde joke! :) Also nice introduction of Lou in the dark background. I wonder what he wants.

  6. It’s fun to try out the jokes when no one is around, isn’t it. I have a few myself.

    Whatever Lou is there for, I hope it’s not going to cause too much trouble (or damage to property).

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      agreed on the first, concur on the second. Lou may be what some might call a criminal/mob boss but a) he has a certain code 2) the tall, thin man has a certain self-assurance and c) there is the matter of a certain young woman that Mr. Caesare has imposed himself on the Café and it’s Proprietors.

      hey! M!

      there’s an idea!! or rather an opportunity for a walk on!
      I’ll have the tall, thin man invite Lou to sit a table in the middle somewhere (give me a chance to describe the furniture and other physical features of the Café which I love doing)… if’n you happen to drop by the SSC&B (on this a non-determined, say, early afternoon? day of the week) and feel like saying hello that’d be fun.

  7. Chris Hall says:

    Oh yes, still laughing (quietly).

  8. Misky says:

    Love the joke, and still chuckling.

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