Six Sentence Story: From Death To Life

When Aurelia returned to the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro she joined the red-headed writer at a booth and then they wandered to wherever with the Bartender. With the men and women at separate locations the men could have a serious conversation (and perhaps even the women as well, but I can’t imagine what they might be talking about even though I could hear them doing a lot of it).

On the male side of the room Lou and I, thanks to prodding by the tall, thin man, were fast becoming good friends with Lou even inviting us to go with him to his Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge, but I told Lou that I’d rather read a paper on what amino acids and nucleobases were found on the asteroid Bennu than go to a strip club. To elaborate – although I don’t think it helped – I said, Long ago when I was young and stupid I found myself lying on the floor while a woman having only words at her disposal frantically commanded life back into my motionless body and a voice advised me not to try to regain control, but merely trust that I would according to her words even though I witlessly ingested the drugs she wishes now she never brought.

How long has that voice been watching over you? Lou asked.

Now that that incident slipped back into my memory it must have been – forever.

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Denise offers the prompt word “slip” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

With thanks to Greg Doles for linking this song in one of his playlists on Chasing Light.
With thanks to my friend, Samuel Manga, for turning his prayer into this song. “Tu me restaures jour après jour.”
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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

32 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: From Death To Life”

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  4. “I’d rather read a paper on what amino acids and nucleobases were found on the asteroid Bennu than go to a strip club.”  Funny line and not surprised Lou asked Frank how long the voice had been looking after him.

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  5. Excellent Six<sup>colabs-1</sup> *

    Good Six keeping the scene coherent while providing potential (narrative) branches to the benefit of all

    *not a ‘real’ mathematical term, but we don’t (yet) have a really good term for this ‘live-serial-story-colaboration(ing)’

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  7. Great episode Frank – this made me laugh- ‘I’d rather read a paper on what amino acids and nucleobases were found on the asteroid Bennu than go to a strip club’ – that says it all good for you Frank 😃🙌

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  8. Frank, greetings.
    Monks of Abbey of Notre Dame just released a new album ” Angelus Cantat”.
    I think you will enjoy listening to it.
    Besides it is not uncommon for the Gatekeeper to have something like that playing in the quiet hours while sitting outside the SSC&B😉

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      1. Those amino acids and nucleobases are actually bothering me. There was even terrestrial bacterial on Ryugu (which had to be labeled contamination, but who knows when the contamination occurred). Thank you and blessings, Misky!

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