Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 22
Title: Tour of Fort Ashby
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: June 29, 2005, 10:51 pm
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 0:00
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1.2 MB
Summary
In this twenty-second Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recalls a snowy return to a high-school hometown while taking his nephew to the store. Familiar roads loop back on themselves, old accident sites are pointed out, and blocked streets force careful navigation through piled snow and abandoned cars before finally reaching home.
The dream grows crowded and restless: cyclists arrive unannounced, a house fills with people and food, dogs need calming, and the setting shifts to a grandmother’s home. Outside, rock-throwing escalates into a futile exchange, ending in frustration, poor aim, and retreat—movement without resolution.
Transcript (auto-generated)
I was taking my nephew out to the store or something. And apparently I was in Fort Ashby. And I just went around the loop because there’s two ways out of the development.
There’s two different roads that meet up at the center of town. And it was snowing, well it wasn’t snowing, but there was snow everywhere that there had been a snow. And I was showing him where I had been before and where I had run into trouble. There were really large piles of snow. One had a car in the middle of it. And I was telling him, you know, I was caught on top of that pile. And there I was showing him the house that I had hit.
There was nothing wrong with the house, but apparently I had hit it and had a small accident. And we were trying to get back up where the road meets up with the development, but there were so many cars there. And some were blocking the way in. And nobody was in their cars.
They were all just parked. That and all the snow made it slippery. But we finally got back through the mess and got up the hill. As we were arriving at my house, there were some people there at the front door. There were like four people arrived on bicycles. And I got out of the car and I pretty much jumped in front of them. And at that time the front door had opened and someone else had opened the door and I just ran right in the house. And people came in and there was apparently a dinner of some kind being prepared.
And I went outside again. And then the next thing I remembered, there were a lot of dogs and we were in Grandma’s house. And my other sister-in-law was trying to get the dogs calmed down and she told me to put one of the dogs out on the front porch. And when I did that I realized that the door outside was also open. So I was going to close the door but then there were people outside on rocks at a tree. So I went outside and told them to stop throwing rocks.
It was my brother and somebody else. And they just kept throwing rocks. And one of them came right at me. So I jumped down off the steps. And I pretty much started finding smaller rocks and throwing at them constantly. And I had such a bad shot nothing would hit them. Probably something did hit them. And I think I went back in the house after that. And I think I’m going to stop there.
