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:
MARCH
Despite really not liking heights, I always get a kick out of watching the ground recede, as the plane I’m on lets the earth drop away as it got on with the business of being a flying machine.
First class air travel, while not nearly as decadent on a domestic flight as with certain international carriers, (“Sir, I have drawn your bath and taken the liberty to make reservations for you at the opera this evening, thank you for flying Little Horn Airlines”), is well worth the extra money. Especially when it’s someone else’s. In the case of my current flight to Chicago, it was my client Lou’s, as he insisted I go and meet with a certain attractive and lethal, (though I’ve heard it argued that this description, applied to the distaff side of the family of Man, is a bit redundant), woman and negotiate an amicable resolution to a dispute over the ownership of a ‘Time Mechanism’.
Sitting across from the owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge yesterday, he described what he needed me to do,
“Look Devereaux, you gotta march into that Anya broad’s office in the fuckin’ red skyscraper she owns and lay down the law. Let her know, in no uncertain terms, that the item everyone is after doesn’t matter; the only thing that does matter is she gets those Bavarian psycho nuns to leave my niece Rosetta out of whatever run-up to the end-of-the-world Apocalympics they’re train’ for, capisce?”
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Yeah, Ian! Just march right up to Anya, lol. Who was it said the devil was a man?
lol
Bavarian psycho nuns…lol! Capisce, boss.
yes ma’am
love the word Apocalympics
I’m glad Lou values his family this much and always smile over his speeches. Lay down the law, indeed.
yeah, for all his faults and criminal enterprise and such, Lou does have some solid values.
(funny about this writing thing, most of my ‘bad guy’ characters have some kind of redeeming value, if not charm)
Ha! An amicable resolution. That seems highly unlikely.
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That’s going to be an excellent entrance. Or at least I would think so.
Cliff Notes: Ian knows Anya from a previous WIP novel, ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’… he knows what he’s getting into
Those nuns are more and more intriguing!
thankee
Ooh 😲 First of all, am scared of heights like crazy but I like the feeling of looking down or the plane… Secondly, I wanna meet her! And yes, free plane tickets must feel awesome.
Anya Clarieaux is one of my favorites and second to Lou Caesare and Ian Devereaux is the easiest to write
It sounds like there might be something to that time machine. Those nuns do seem rather odd. Lou probably should be concerned about them trying to get Rosetta involved in their mischief.
yeah, Lou’s old-fashioned on matters concerning fammily