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This is the Six Sentence Story
Denise is the host
(continuo from this week’s Doctrine Six Sentence Story)
Prompt word:
TERM
The post Six (point-seven) Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- first appeared on the Wakefield Doctrine.The knock on the Manager’s office door was soft enough to eliminate at least two of the seven Proprietors.
Pulling the chair away from the desk brought a quick correction to the list of door-knockers. The Sophomore sat and was immediately assailed by the memory of the first night he’d, ‘worked the door’, of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Standing at the top of the three granite steps that terminated down at the entrance door, his mentor/sponsor/probable-friend, the Gatekeeper, in a deliberately comical sotto voce, said, “So, young dude, it’s not the people who know they should be allowed in who matter, it’s the people who hope to deserve to be let in, that, my friend, is the art of Gatekeeping.”
The second (double) knock on the door cued a memory of advice from yet another Proprietor: ‘When people, other than cops, knock on your door, it’s a lot like the first-date teenager pretending to stretch his arms in a movie theatre as a premise to establish an emotional beachhead; it’s a total Schrödinger’s moment.”
With a smile, the only employee rumored to be a Time Traveler, deepened his voice into what he believed sounded adult, “Come in!”
