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The Apples Said Otherwise (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, September 15)

Erin Wood
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Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

Typewriter-style note on cream paper, dated 09/15/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: "Somebody left a wheelbarrow of surplus apples at the end of the driveway with a sign that said TAKE. By noon the apples were gone. So was the wheelbarrow. It came back at five, washed. This is Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. It was Tuesday, September 15th. It was cool at dawn in Camp Puppy Haven, warm by two, first color in the maples. We were working the day watch out of Root Cellar Detail. My partner's Doris. The boss is Commander Vera. My name's Puppy. A woman was already worrying about how the winter would go. The apples said otherwise. Doris ate one." Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

Somebody left a wheelbarrow of surplus apples at the end of the driveway with a sign that said TAKE. By noon the apples were gone. So was the wheelbarrow. It came back at five, washed. This is Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

It was Tuesday, September 15th. It was cool at dawn in Camp Puppy Haven, warm by two, first color in the maples. We were working the day watch out of Root Cellar Detail. My partner's Doris. The boss is Commander Vera. My name's Puppy.

A woman was already worrying about how the winter would go. The apples said otherwise. Doris ate one.


Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.

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