Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, subject to the Rule of Six.
Previously, in our SSC&B story when last we saw the tall, thin man and Lou Caesare.
Prompt Word:
WOUND
An objective, unseen observer might be forgiven for describing the owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge as being in a state of paralysis and the Proprietor of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro as ‘rocking-the-spectrum’ while staring at nothing, were it not for one very simple fact: given who the two men were, ‘unseen’ would not be a possibility.
The tall, thin man watched as his guest’s eyes, dark wounds in a face comprised of as many scars of battle as wrinkles of good-natured camaraderie, focused on the figure moving invisibly from the bar to a point in front of the small stage. Rising with a lethal languor, the Proprietor caused the stiletto knife to drop down inside the right sleeve of his suit jacket, pointed end peeking out of a tastefully-monogrammed cuff.
Lou Caesare rose from his chair, right arm scything into the dark behind his host, who, in turn, felt his nostrils flare at a scent even as he felt manicured fingers caress neck along his carotid artery; a slow waterfall of stress-embedded silence filled the Café.
Lou’s crocodile laugh, after exploding the tension, smoothed itself into words and they, in turn, signaled an all clear, “Luce dei miei occhi, Rosetta?”
Rosetta Storme, her own laughter more of the young leopard returning to the pack after her first hunt, slipped the ice pick back into a pocket and. leaning into Lou’s bear hug, shrugged a smile at the Proprietor who returned it, the click of his knife lost in the soft-scraping of chairs on the floor of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.
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About clarkscottroger
Unlikely pairing those two – the tall, thin man and Lou. And yet, they compliment one another.
So what are the odds Rosetta steals into the Café this particular night. Crazy, right?
Or maybe just bad timing. Odd souvenir to be lifting from her place of employment. What’s the girl gonna do with an ice pick. Yikes.
she just playin’
you know, having fun with Lou and her new employer
Ice pick… where have I seen one? Something with Instinct and Basic…
Welcome to the dark side, young Wakefieldwalker!
(Wordage+music)
thanks, Nick
(Don’t tell anyone, this Six/installment-in-this-particular-serial-Six was of the homework variety, i.e. I saw the possibility of the situation and set out to try and write it (in the confines of the ‘hop) plus it was an action sequence that I really need to work on, writingistically-speaking.)
damn, talk about the persistence of influences hadn’t thought about Newman* in years!
*embarrassingly obvious obscure reference…. Seinfeld character (whatever his real name) and the scene from the movie
I like how the Proprietor had that knife up his sleeve.
I thought that strange figure was Rosetta. And I’m pretty sure she’s Lou’s daughter, or at least niece, but in the realm of fiction she could even be the Proprietor’s.
Nice description of the tension and its resolution.
thanks, Frank
(invitation for a walk-on remains open… let us know) rumour has it there’s something of a shindig comin’ up at ‘the Bistro
What a scene!
ty, mm
Oh wow. A stiletto knife and an ice pick in the same room – my goodness!
Plus, ‘the young leopard returning to the pack after her first hunt,’ excellent.
lol hey, I mentioned to Frank that there was something of a party of sorts coming up at the Café… what’s your thoughts on schedule… April 1st is on a Tuesday so, it only makes sense to have a celebration of April’s Fools Day on the 3rd of the month… (Six Sentence Story day).
let us know your thoughts. (if you ‘see’ Nick, tell him he needs to invite Misky (mums the word for now!)
“Rosetta Storme, her own laughter more of the young leopard returning to the pack after her first hunt”
This line slayed. I could hear her cackling all the way up here!
ty yo
Good heavens, what a brilliant mosaic of words forming this scene!
So vivid, this episode can NOT be unseen. Not that we’d want that. Wow!
thank you, Liz