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:
GESTURE
“Damn, we’re almost there…” as a sudden crease between Rosetta’s eyebrows began to growl, the Sophomore made a note to not forget this particular tell, even as she continued, “Now promise me you won’t do anything to make matters worse.”
“What do you mean… like I shouldn’t start making out with you when your gangster uncle starts lecturing you on, on Lilith knows what?“
“Wait, what did you just say?”
‘uh oh… Danger, Will Robinson, Danger‘, the young man began to fidget, his opinion of the girl next to him rising in sync with his fear of being called-out for his old-cultural reference to TV shows of the ’60s and hastily replied, “Meant no disrespect, honest!”
“No, the thing about Lilith, how do you know about her?”
“Come on, everyone knows about Adam’s first wife; we may not have had the internet back in the early seventies, but there were libraries and bookstores and people to talk to and the thing about those days is that when you set out to learn new stuff you almost always had a sense of the quality and character of your sources, ya know?”
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About clarkscottroger
We had amazing libraries and bookstores, still do. Maybe the younger set should spend more time in them, but that’s a tale for another day.
tru an while there is no comparison in convenience and up-to-datedness… libraries, like bookstores are more fun…
Oh yes, proper books… almost always better – but apart from doing WP etc!!
I concur
I wonder how the Sophomore knows about Lilith as well. Actually I also wonder how Rosetta knows about her, but Rosetta gets around.
Hey! Thanks for the set up for a ‘How Our Story Got To This Point aka info-dump… so, the meeting with Lou is about how word got back to him that friends of his niece, Rosetta, died under mysterious circumstance while playing amateur detectives and trying to learn about the Order of Lilith (which Readers will recall occupied Ian Devereaux in a serial Six ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’)
Now the Sophomore is a putative, albeit unwilling time traveler from the early 1970s when he was transported from the Golden Age of Rock to modern times, showing up on the doorstep of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro… so he knows a thing or two about Adam’s first wife… (who, to be fair to the first Man and a certain deity’e BFF* walked out on him and, for that matter straight out the gate marked East of Eden)
thanks again
Leson number one in hooking up with a mature woman…. Good luck Sophomore!
in his defence, he does have direct experience of growing up in the ’60s and college in the early ’70s… so added perspective?