Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.
A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’.
“Toe may toe…”
“Toe mah toe!”
Laughter fractal’d from the two. Held by the gossamer scaffolding of their respective imaginations, both made good on their, (ok, our), offer to the Reader for a pleasant, momentary diversion.
(Contrary to the stern admonitions, embedded like the walnut chunks in a German chocolate cake, of countless books on rhetoric, there are times when a Narrator may be considered reliable.)
‘You’re more …refined sounding than you look.”
“…and you’re even more attractive, the up-lilt of your accent, no, don’t tell me! I was so young when last I encountered it.”
(The parentheticals too off-putting? Sorry. What? No, a good Narrator is but a guide, neither the journey nor the souvenirs.)
“While your voice is as familiar as sleeping breath, discarding one sense surely advantages the others… tell me more.”
“Your true strength is revealed by your voice, where a dark-smudge of a person was, sound replaces light.”
(Surely you’ve guessed. These two have appeared, however fictionally, in a number of our stories.)
“Indeed, sight is not the primary…
“Or primal”
Laughter, like a good dinner guest, contributes sparingly to the event, enhancing a dish, not replacing it. The two, [as Narrator, reliable or otherwise, we pray you not regard us as elements in our tale], continued their exploration of their respective love.
“Since we are, for the moment, citizens of the aural realm, names are the most appropriate gifts we might exchange, do you agree?”
“I do. Mr. Stone.”
About clarkscottroger
Sorry to say, old chap, that although I enjoyed the parentheticality, the general gist of your elegantly presented tale rather slithered beneath the threshold of my comprehension.
PS Can’t leave a Like and can’t see the video. Other than that, it’s all good.
I didn’t realize I had a ‘Like’ button, at least on my blog itself and the vid, alas I hear that from many over on the civilized side of the Pond
no, not a problem
just between you and I, sometimes I use the ‘corn for self-assigned tests. A challenge to myself to write in a manner accessible to all. I’t kinda like an open book exam, ‘cept the test is graded by the whole class.
… you know the canary in the coal mine thing, right?
You, old chap are my canary in the coal mine of straight-forward, direct fiction (think, imagine that Hemingway and Robert Parker got married…. what stories they would create) so your reaction is the simplest (and quite appreciated) appreciation. (There are others, whose reactions/responses are in tune with the other extreme of ‘writing style’* (image ee cummings and Lewis Carroll… trying in vain for a touch of Robert Sheckley.)
again I appreciate your ‘that did not make sense’ as much (well, sorta) as a good job.
again… mums the word
*if I may be so bald as to refer to what I do with words as a style (voice, I’m good with claiming, but style, imo, implies a broader audience than merely writing with a consistent and often recognizable voice
Are you kidding me? The narrator has a cult following all his own!
thankee
Names gifted by birthright can turn out to be so ironic. Mr. Stone is so lively in conversation.
Agree! (though to be fair to ‘the Crone’ she tends to be the most vocally aggressive*)
* there are a number of ‘Unicorn Challenge stories that center on this couple, ‘the Stone and the Crone’
They are a delightful pair and we’ve not heard from them at the “Corn in quite some time!
yeah, fun couple
More stories… more please! (always)
but shame the vid won’t work here either
yeah… pretty much they (utube vids) fall into the Atlantic on their way out to the world