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April 23, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias and His Muse: A Sunken Warship

Half her crew are fallen, Now forever below, asleep, A once great warship lies; In waters dark and deep. Badly burned and broken, No more to see the sun, No more port-calls, no more honors, Her days of glory done. No more shall she strike awe, No more will she terrify some foe, Now she’s […]

April 22, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Slow Learner

That we were happy to be alive under any circumstances was the point growing up during the 50s. We were told to be so by our pandemic, world war and depression weary folks. Sometimes we were distracted and drove ourselves into a ditch and got severely bounced around, nearly buying the farm — missing a […]

April 21, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Emergency Emergency

The word this morning was that the Russians had fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile. It is supposed to be a new model of the old SS-18 rocket NATO called the “SATAN.” Apparently the Russians have another name for it. The experts said it was a signal directed by Mr. Putin to demonstrate his government’s […]

April 20, 2022 Vic Socotra

Weather Report: War and the World

The Fire Ring was smiling, unusual on a Wednesday. Smiles are normally reserved to sometime after the luncheon break, when the future of this day is pretty much set and the morning bright with promise is relegated to the past. The best we can normally muster at the meeting is to savor the warmth of […]

April 20, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: End of the Line

Editor’s Note: Marlow lays it out, and it is still morning. The little pocket of writers in our backwaters, far from the tumult that made us and connects us forward and backward in swirling time. DeMille wanted to hold this for the big run-out of the story of all of us. Amanda the Attorney wanted […]

April 19, 2022 Vic Socotra

Here Comes the Judge

We had a rough start to the Tuesday Production Meeting. Monday was a busy day for her. One topic of interest had been covered by Arrias, who discussed where the conflict in Ukraine was likely to go, and it included a consideration of the real possibility of the use of WMD. Marlow then had an […]

April 18, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Nothing New In The East

The war in Ukraine has settled into a disquieting monotony: for those who have been following the war closely, the last few weeks seem like “nothing new”: each day Russian forces continue to slowly move into the East, small unit actions continue along most of the fronts, the siege of Mariupol continues, and the Russians […]

April 18, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Day of Returns

Arrias led off the production effort on this early Monday morning. Well, it was early, and had an informed discussion of the prospect of the use of atomic weapons. That went along with proofing the manuscript the Chairman has had in various ruck-sacks for about forty years. It was an old story about a sailor […]

April 18, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Conversating Signs of Our Times

Author’s Note: This email should say at its bottom “Sent from my iPhone . . . after tapping it out while going 80MPH,” and that’d be true, but it required beaucoup laptop keyboarding corrections and editing to be legible. -Marlow April 18, 2022 Conversating Signs of Our Times W and I returned W’s mom to […]