I love Six Sentence Sunday, so it was kind of a bummer to miss out on it these last couple of weeks. But it’s a new week and a new opportunity. This six comes from Maynedon, my dark serial. It’s been on hiatus for several months, but I’m working on the next “season” and expect to have Episode 20 up around the first week of October.
In this scene–taken from Episode 2- The Man at the Lake–we meet Doc Harley, the Chief Medical Examiner for Cedarford County. He’s been called to the small town of Cedar Mills to investigate a death, along with his assistant David Masters.
Most of the time, Doc treated David like a necessary evil. He’d long since left any pretension to youth behind and had held off retirement for as long as his body seemed willing. Soon, it would be over, his task handed off to this young man who, to his credit, was in every way a worthy successor despite Doc’s reluctance to admit it.
David Masters did the heavy lifting in the field and more than his fair share of work in the morgue. He was young, handsome, obsessed with technology and well-adapted to a world ready to leave Doc behind. And, when the mood struck him to reflect on his life, Doc knew he was ready to let it.
I hope you enjoyed it.
It sounds like these two share an interesting relationship. Learning more should be interesting. Nice six.
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I’m glad you liked it.
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Wow, interesting stuff going on here. Nice six!
Thanks.
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Very nice intro to the young doc.
Thank you. Doc Harley and David have an interesting relationship (at least, I think they do), so it was fun to introduce them by comparing each to the other.
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Interesting comparison of characters and it’s nice to see that they get on – that their differences are not an impediment to their working relationship. Good stuff.
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Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Good intro into a mentor/student so to speak. One thing, the last sentence about reflecting on his life wasn’t exactly clear. At the end did you mean- Doc knew David was ready to let him (reflect on his life)
Doc is ready for the world to leave him behind. One thing I especially like about this scene is that it appears Doc Harley is coming to terms with David Masters succeeding him as medical examiner. In fact, he’s thinking of leaving an altogether different post.
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Good Six. Looks like this could be a complicated relationship here… ;D
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Glad you liked it. Thanks.
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