Author: Vic Socotra

Oral Arguments

There is supposed to be something happening in the Senate judiciary Committee this morning. We will see about that, although fully ten cardboard placards were seated in their living occupied seats. It was different yesterday. I reserved my arguments to the festivities surrounding oral surgery in a town 40-odd miles down the road. Maybe there […]

Point Loma: Wolf Warriors- Yeah, Right….

Editor’s Note: This is an offering from Point Loma on another player in the wild circus that will continue to sweep over us in the next few weeks and months. I was distracted today in a matter of oral surgery that replaced several well-used teeth. The travel, anesthetic and kinetic impact is leaving me a […]

Swamp Postcard: Election Home Stretch?

I don’t know how your dinner table is doing this week. Mine is filled with mutterings and amazement. The good news is that some sort of resolution to this garish display of national disunity may be coming in less than two weeks. The bad news is that may not be true, and this national litmus […]

Arrias: A Lesson From the Gracchi

19 October 2020 Editor’s Note: I don’t know how you are handling the coming election. I have been relatively diligent in attempting to follow the twists and turns of the narratives driving both sides of this strange election. The most recent developments, captured in the last two weeks of the normal cycle have been curious. […]

Life & Island Times: Short Story

Editor’s Note: This is Marlow’s take on the last part of the frantic cavalcade that is happening around us. There are 16 days to go in this part of the most amazing election we have had a chance to witness. It is a humorous version on the view conveyed from ancient times and distant places. […]

Stones of the District: SE9, Third Time the Charm

Author’s Note: It is about time to put the manuscript to bed for the search for the District Stones. It was a grand adventure, and included history both known and unknown. It was a minor epic worth living amid urban elegance and squalor, the worlds of the living and the dead. I will have the […]

Life & Island Times: Socotra House Journalists

Editor’s Note: Each day, inching toward one of the several election milestones, I glory in the association of some unrepentant Authors In The Yard. Marlow has a shot at it today. Go, Doctor. – Vic Author’s Note: To lighten our moods and prove that we mechanical pencil pushing Socotra House journalers are not always ill […]

Swamp Postcard: Final Stretch

This shambling monstrosity of two campaigns is being crystalized into the chosen two narratives in time for the final stretch down to the election. Before this morning’s news, I had the COVID alarm coming down in emphasis, with the various interpretations of the President’s hospitalization last week. His narrative is that there is only fear […]

I like Ike

Author’s Note: There is a fair amount of activity going on this morning. It is lovely and clear skies in Culpeper. The national top bill, of course, is the Barrett hearing on the Hill. Quick reaction from listening to parts of it, is that the opponents to her nomination are essentially folding on the matter, […]

Life & Island Times: Dog Tags

13 October 2020 Editor’s Note: Marlow brings his sense of place and time to these curious dreamscapes approaching the election. It may be an important one, from what I have heard. Certainly there will be more cheerful chaos to come. – Vic Author’s Note: This draft appeared to me in my dreamscapes. I may be […]