Where the Devil Roams

Before Spyglass There Was this

“Captain or no captain: right now, we’re just two assholes lost in the woods.” Sopranos

The woods these two crew were talking about remains what is left of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. Could be we can’t get away with Godzilla, but the Jersey Devil stays, at least in spirit. Anyways, this title is a working one. Who knows where the story line is going? Certainly not I.

Last week Cabaret in NYC tossed me for a loop. I was out in the field almost every day, too caught up in electionyearing to seek respite in fantasy. The show still haunts me. The show should haunt everybody.

Now, I am back in what was Pine Barrens, full of intentions to return to RV Bowser, on sparkling seas where we left her, with a giant turtle rising to the surface to greet her, and our Captain, who so far has the only spoken word, “Lordy” ….as the Bowser was rocked by something quite substantial.

So, we begin the week here, my fellow creatives, and I hope to get this creature closer to the surface. I have it in my mind, because I am weak on creating dialogue, that the creature works telepathically, as does the man with the bucket, but all of this is new and news to the captain, who is taking al

l this in.