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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

January 9, 2025 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise it is governed by a single rule: all stories must be exactly six sentence in length.

Prompt word:

MACHINE

“You know what this joint needs?”

It was late morning on the first Tuesday of the New Year and the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro was as empty as an upside-down pail.

Seeing the woman sitting at the end of the long bar, the tall, thin man shielded his eyes from an imaginary light-source and called-out in an exaggerated aside, hand in front of his mouth, palm outwards, “Mimi, you’re not gonna leave a brother hangin’ metaphorically-….”

“Cher, surely you don’t mean, ‘dialogue-istically speaking’, were you to, you’d end up as tangled in the alliterative underbrush as an ole gator what chased un cocodrie in his leaky pirogue,” the diminutive woman laughed with a natural kindness that defied mockery.

“Sorry, I thought the Café fiction machine was on the fritz again, please do not let me disturb your reflection, I just…” the well-dressed Proprietor had a look of chagrin even as he lit another of his favorite brands of cigarette, Player’s Navy Cut; seeing the look in the woman’s eyes, he hastily added, “No, I gave up years ago, but I have a Reader who, though no longer a smoker herself, enjoys their fictional representation,” his smile served as convivial punctuation.

The laughter from the bar reminded the tall, thin man of how, in a fictional reality, things really do work out for the best, even as the peaceful impromptu moment was interrupted by the Bartender bursting through the kitchen’s double swinging door.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 8, 2025 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise it is governed by a single rule: all stories must be exactly six sentence in length.

Prompt word:

MACHINE

Leaving his third floor apartment, the Sophomore resolved anew to accept that he had been transported fifty-five years into the future from his eponymous second year of college and, upon further reflection, added to his New Year resolutions the goal of nurturing gratitude for finding himself in the company of the people, who, for reasons no one thought to explain, called themselves Proprietors of the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. While lacking the laid-back vibe and remarkable music scene of the end of the ’60s, he knew if he was ever going to find how or even why he’d been temporally dislocated, he needed to embrace the present.

The sidewalk, as he approached the Café, ceased being a brick ‘n soot maze, the work of the first modern industrial engineers serving the monied-patriarchs sitting in homes in the city’s finest neighborhoods, known, without the slightest sense of irony, as College Hill; the young man smiled at the memory the girl he met at a college mixer in the Ivy League school on the Hill, his mood souring with the realization that she would now be seventy-three years old.

The five-story building that housed the Café and served as the involuntary time-traveler’s sanctuary, came into view as he turned the final corner but his attention was hijacked by a billboard sign in the middle of a freshly cleaned lot.

Brand new and totally incongruous, it offered the image of a family walking, in the background were open fields and distant mountains; the adults were smiling grimly and the two children gazed upwards; the artwork was in a pointillist style with an earthy palette, the result was thoroughly wholesome and homespun.

Dominating the top half of the 10.5 by 36 foot sign were two lines of text;

in comic sans:

‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’

below which, in Times New Roman:

‘Serve the Machine and your needs will be met’.

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the Wakefield Doctrine Manifesto

December 2, 2013 By clarkscottroger

hey!! dig this

the Wakefield Doctrine Manifesto

(I have a dream): that there is a place, a life, where clarks are free to be assholes and not regret a single negative response from those around us, to live in a world where we are free to be boastful and self-promoting without fear of our heads swelling up or our face falling; a life in which we can act as we know we must, without having to deal with the fear that a total stranger, (who we will never, in fact, actually meet or talk to), might disapprove.

(I have a dream): of forcing scotts to the ground because we think it’s funny and ignoring rogers in front of the herd because we can’t be bothered with their bullshit.

(I have a dream): of a personal reality where clarks can touch others in mind and spirit without needing to hide behind parenthesiseses or humor or obscuring words or phrases or stuff.

(I have a dream): of a personal reality where we can live as a person who experiences the world of the Outsider, the reality of the Predator and the life of the Herd member in dynamic balance and relate ourselves to the world around us without reservation.

(Obvious thanks to MLK. Truth speaks to all, regardless of circumstance.)

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sshh, the Wakefield Doctrine, still tired…read the old stuff for now

June 5, 2011 By clarkscottroger

welcome to the wakefield doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

great Saturday Night Drive…tired… will add to Post later in the afternoon…go ahead and read some of the old stuff..

Oh! wait, two memory fragments from last night….T Shirts and (really intriguing but vague..) ‘Your Life in 3 Photos Contest’…(i think it involved a contest)…not sure…check back later…

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the Wakefield Doctrine Fashion Center

April 27, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Did someone say, “God, if only I could get some articles of clothing that brand me as a Follower of the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) blog, then my life will mean something!!?

Yes, someone did say this.

This could be on top of your damn head, if you wanted.

…and, did I, in fact, hear someone say, ‘show us more photos of this fine apparel’?

yes, this is the first in the Wakefield Doctrine fashion line

Fashion is the reason for this Wakefield Doctrine golf cap.

look on this hat, does it lack a single thing?

…unless of course you add a dog!

Wakefield Doctrine On the Move! Friends of the Doctrine and DownSprings and normal humans are beginning to send in photos of the Wakefield Doctrine as it spreads across the globe, (with attendant damn heads)

From ” Michigan” Friend of the Doctrine Mel proudly wears his hat in front of the St Joseph Lighthouse