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, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.
Prompt word:
MINUTE
“Hold up a minute, just gotta make sure I got my key,” as the Sophomore expected, Rosetta continued down the concrete stairs and out to the sidewalk.
“God damn it!”
The girl’s inflection on the classic profane oath made her sound at once very young and rather mature; his back still towards her, he could hear the minute inflection of resignation to the unfair nature of the world, while not holding back on defiance.
The Sophomore turned to observe Rosetta staring at the street; specifically, a car; particularly, a black Mercedes S5oo idling in the middle of the tenement-lined street, as out-of-place as an anvil in a bassinet.
“Friend or Foe?”
“Worse...family.”
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Nice description of that car in the neighborhood: “as out-of-place as an anvil in a bassinet”
I like how you left us in suspense with the ending.
thanks, Frank
yeah, it was one of those where you have the scene, but no matter what ya can’t cut it down to Six
I’ll be the first to say – these two are the “it couple”.
Excellent scene. Popcorn queued for Part 2. Bring it!
ikr?
Ah, family. You can’t live with them and there aren’t enough places to hide all the bodies.
kok
Ahh family… ouch!
ikr? :}
You got that right- exactly who I do not want showing up!
tru dat
Family?! Run away! Run away!
lol
I hadn’t image Rosetta falling back on a three word phrase when a single word covered it sufficiently.
ps: perfect cliff-hanger.
(Don’t tell anyone but I went with the three word phrase ’cause there were too many opinions on the spelling (none overly convincing)… unless you mean an entirely different (and 4 syllable) word)
thanksk
Love the take on ‘family’. I concur with the view that they are more difficult than friends or foes.
ikr?