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The Black Flies Had Joined the Meeting (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, May 20)

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 05/20/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: "Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Twenty-five hundred acres. The lilacs are out. The black flies are out. The screen door is back on. The dogs are on the right side of it. It was Wednesday, May 20th. It was warm in Camp Puppy Haven, the black flies thick by the woodpile. We were working the day watch out of Phone-In-The-Hand Task Force. My partner's Dave. He's new. He brought a phone. The boss is Lieutenant Pickles. My name's Puppy. A man was on a video call on the porch. The black flies had joined the meeting. He was the only one who hadn't noticed." Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Twenty-five hundred acres. The lilacs are out. The black flies are out. The screen door is back on. The dogs are on the right side of it.

It was Wednesday, May 20th. It was warm in Camp Puppy Haven, the black flies thick by the woodpile. We were working the day watch out of Phone-In-The-Hand Task Force. My partner's Dave. He's new. He brought a phone. The boss is Lieutenant Pickles. My name's Puppy.

A man was on a video call on the porch. The black flies had joined the meeting. He was the only one who hadn't noticed.


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