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:
FOLD
“Lemme tell ya about business people, Devereaux, something you’re not gonna learn in any Ivory League business school. I don’t care if you go to Warburtons, Sloan Kettering or Carnegie Melons, all it takes to succeed is to want it more than the next guy; the fuckin essence of capitalism is the punchline to a joke about bears and running shoes.”
Lou Caesare was back in his domain; his executive suite cum boardroom was the last booth in a row running down the street-side wall in the Lounge half of his establishment, the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge. The subject of numerous FBI Organized Crime Task Force reports, taught in graduate-level Criminology courses, used as credentials by both deep-undercover operatives and apprentice mobsters, not to mention the subtext in movies and countless tv series, one man, through force of Will combined with a genius for discerning opportunity, managed an underworld empire.
‘So, regarding your niece, I can keep up the surveillance for a while, if that’s what you want,”
I feel genuinely proud of my capacity to convey a lack of personal interest in things that, for one reason or another, I needed to avoid; with Lou Caesare, while I valued being in the fold, my detective business is never going to be a subsidiary of his operation.
“Nah, Rosetta can take care of herself, but I wanna know if that Anya broad does anything that might affect me and mine, capisce?”
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Methinks Ian may be walking a thinner line the deeper involved he gets. Lou seems to have a way of “convincing” people to provide service(s) to him. On his terms, lol.
always
You are so right about “wanting more than the other person.” If you reject their code of conduct, they will want to know what kind of success you have achieved in alternate fields.
“they will want to know what kind of success you have achieved in alternate fields.”
thereby revealing their blindness to the true insight and/or power (of said insight) it’s the willingness, imo, of the individual to trade their soul for what they are convinced they need/desire
Devereaux has been reassigned to Anya. We, as well as Lou, may get more information about her.
Interesting and perhaps even good advice from Lou, “all it takes to succeed is to want it more than the next guy”.
thanks for the reminder, i.e. to allow the Reader to come to know the characters on a deeper level
Anya. Anya. Who are you?
we shall see (actually this constitutes and interesting challenge for me as writer/author… Anya’s been a character since my first novel-length story (WIP) and I know her as well as anyone but the thing I find, when my ‘voice of reason’ chimes in (this is the voice that simply put is an active form of writers block, it’s the part of my mind who thinks I should study and take classes on how to write good. lol fortunately I realize that with some characters (Anya, Lou, Ian) when I’m not ‘trying’ I tend to hit the show v tell button fairly frequently… so I guess we’ll just have to spend some more time with our Miz Clarieaux to get an insight into her character
Can I go in deep cover? I’ve got a good alibi. What do you think?
(she said to him)
we’ll all be looking over Ian’s shoulder… he’s had dealings with Ms. Claireaux over the years and so is quite cautious