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We Stayed With the Rain (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, September 28)

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 09/28/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: "Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The sand shed's filling up. The church put out the sign for the harvest supper. The pavement quits a mile past the school. After that it's dirt, and then it's us. It was Monday, September 28th. It was fifty degrees and gray in Camp Puppy Haven, rain coming off the hills by noon. We were working the day watch out of Boot Tray Detail. My partner's Dave. He's new. He brought a stuffed platypus. The boss is Captain Hatch. My name's Puppy. A woman was already worried about Thursday. Thursday hadn't happened yet. We stayed with the rain." Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The sand shed's filling up. The church put out the sign for the harvest supper. The pavement quits a mile past the school. After that it's dirt, and then it's us.

It was Monday, September 28th. It was fifty degrees and gray in Camp Puppy Haven, rain coming off the hills by noon. We were working the day watch out of Boot Tray Detail. My partner's Dave. He's new. He brought a stuffed platypus. The boss is Captain Hatch. My name's Puppy.

A woman was already worried about Thursday. Thursday hadn't happened yet. We stayed with the rain.


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

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