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:
YARN
“You fuckin’ crack me up, you know that?”
Lou Caesare manifested what could best be called an unbridled appetite for life; what he lacked in polish he more than made up for with simple, and mostly good-natured, exuberance, at least on those occasions he felt in the presence of friends.
“I like you Frank, I really do and anybody tries to mess with you and your Topo Gigio invisible friend, just gimme a sign, won’t be no trouble at all,” Lou leaned towards his new found friend, “Sister Imelda, my third grade teacher used to say, between whacking my knuckles raw for talking in the back of the class, “Remember what Proverbs tell us: “…lean not on your own understanding”; I know now what she meant, but back then I was kid dreaming of running the world, or at least my old neighborhood.”
“Not to get excessively meta…” the tall, thin man smiled a smile one might see on a successful broker’s face as he handed a client his business card, low key persistence.
Were it not for his euro-urban rasp, one might have missed Lou’s phonetic mimicry as he covered his mouth to poorly mute an explosive ‘Bullshit!’
Mimi, now that all had made it safely through the intermittently dark hallways, was where she preferred to be and for reasons impossible to understand, was assailed briefly by thoughts of Norns and skeins of bloody yarn.
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Lou is clearly in the presence of friends… and more. Norns had me running to the dictionary, thank you. And bloody skeins of yarn just had me running.
yeah, he’s one of those people I admire one who has a, what’s the word, oh yeah, personality! lol
as the old saying reminds us, ‘fiction is a flawed mirror’
It sounds like Lou Caesare and I have just become friends.
Lou is such a scott
You’re weaving a story about Lou and his role in the cafe, I think, is he the protagonist or the antagonist. I’m not quite sure. Meanwhile, I push your like button but it doesn’t register, the computer universe hates me.
Thank you, Len! (the thing about ‘protag vs antag’ for whatever reason, I read that as a compliment
As it happens, Lou’s role in the Café is as a guest (most of the Proprietors know him as a friend of the Café) his actual (ok, fictional) setting is his business, the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge where he is a supporting character to my favorite noir MC Ian Devereaux*
If you’re interested here’s a couple of Six Sentence Story(s) set in Lou’s Club: the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge,
and with Ian Here
*who at the moment is one of the MC in my other Serial Six
Must have a chat with Mimi… and soon!
I agree
And I missed all that fun talk for the shenanigans of the neighbours… What a pity…