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:
FLY
“What?”
“If you even think about making a joke or otherwise laughing this off, I’ll say, in the spirit of your putative ability to time travel, “to the moon, Ethan…to the moon.”
The Sophomore held both hand, fingers upwards, one palm facing his companion, the other back to himself; it was a gesture neither one of supplication nor surrender; rather one of acceptance, “But before you reach for your Glock, I rarely remember my dreams, even nightmares and I’m really sorry if you were disturbed by it.”
“Disturbed?!”
“So how bad was I, during the nightmare, Rose?”
“You were talking out loud, turning your head to the side every few seconds so it was clear you were driving in a car in your dream; fuckin Marcel Marciano’s got nothing on you when it comes to nonverbal communication; until, that is, you started screaming about a girl thrown from the car as it rolled over, watching her fly through the dark night.”
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The Sophomore and Rosetta clearly have a natural affinity for one another. I like them as a couple. Too bad the time travel thing is beginning to rear its ugly head.
Got a chuckle out of the “fuckin’ Marcel Marciano’s got nothing on you…” line.
Double trouble chasing our favorite young couple, eh?
yeah, stole that line (sorta) from ‘Training Day’
oh my…that poor girl! interesting scene…I’ll have to catch up on the backstory for it to become clearer, but I am intrigued.
thank you!
Cliff Notes: Rosetta Storme is the niece of the owner of ‘the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge, Lou Caesare and, in the context of the serial story here, is a new employee at the Six Sentence Story Café & Bistro where she met the Sophomore (Ethan ban Decken) and they both are on a quest to recover Doctor Egmont’s Time Mechanism which, for reasons the author current lacks, is being shipped to Chicago.
I am sticking to my first mind on this one- now that he has her upright and smoking a cigarette- take back your share of the blankets Sophomore!
lol
Good one! And good advice!
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I wonder if Ethan’s dream is trying to tell him something obvious that he should have known long ago about Rosetta.
damn! that’s your (current) lit specialty… will go back and read me some Daniel Sixes
Since being a time traveller, how lovely to think about going to the moon… and back again. Hmm, smiling about that bit.
the boy’s got more than he can handle as it is, lol…
Oh Ethan, what troubles chase you in your sleep!
To the moon … Now I remember! Jackie Gleason!
…and away we go!!
(btw this is a total trigger for me in terms of the remarkable changes in (whatever the cool sociological term for ‘Holy Shit! Did our culture (ok, our parent’s culture) countenance that level of misogyny?!! Ha! Ha! the bus driver will punch his wife so hard…)
and, no, I’m not taking the position of humorlessness… but, damn! how (thankfully) some things have changed
Indeed!
Interesting challenge before me… I want to explore the time travel element (with Nathan) but I don’t really have the chops, if they exist, to write a Six with an internal flashback… and have anything useful result. Toying with the idea of simply starting a new, semi-independent serial Six ‘the Sophomore-Incidental Time Travel Six’ it will focus on Nathan’s life in 1972 before agencies unknown pulled him to the 2020s where he encountered the SSC&B folk… stay tuned/thoughts/suggestions
I am excited by this prospect of playing with cultural shifts; it’s going to be a total déjà vu (Bakelite telephones!). As for the term, try normative transformation through historical relativism.
Sometimes they’re just dreams, but sometimes they’re important. Maybe he’ll get to the bottom of what happened to him yet.
In a sense, what happened (to the Sophomore) was that he was living the normal life of a college sophomore when something/someone transported him to our present day so yeah we’ll get to the bottom of his nightmares one way or another
Dreams are often way more real than “reality”