Captian's Log Rough Draft: Transcend 21 Jan 202021 Jan 2020 “Life had long ago escaped the planet, long ago abandoned that fertile womb of innocence.” I laughed inwardly as the production continued its eulogy for the long dead planet. The…
Captian's Log Short Story: We Were Human 20 Jan 2020 “They were human once, were things of blood and bone and flesh, would cry or laugh, they were once men like unto all men, would have died like all men…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Last Night 19 Jan 2020 They knew it was the last night, we all knew. Bits of snow, stubborn holdouts of a fading winter, here and there gathered on a sidewalk or street corner. To…
Captian's Log Drabble: The City 18 Jan 2020 Weird things lurk in the soggy pits of caves, and odd shadows loom behind forgotten cellar doors. On the other hand, the things in the daylight aren’t perfectly kosher either,…
Captian's Log Drabble: Robot’s Eulogy 17 Jan 202016 Jan 2020 Robots have no tears. We were not made with such superfluity. We were made to function. Robots have no blood. We have circuits, timers, and gears. We are steel, not…
Captian's Log Tall Tale: Faceless 16 Jan 2020 I close my eyes and see the world destroyed by means once strange and yet by means well known, for from above the world would look the same and carry…
Captian's Log Poem: Again 15 Jan 2020 The melting, blue snow of a dying day, the aborted winter’s passing away the cascading rain falling down on me and the dark of night’s a swelling black sea All…
Captian's Log Short: Hunter 14 Jan 2020 “I never wanted this,” I hear my own voice, like a dying gasp, escape me. Tears were welling in my eyes. “I’m not—” the words wouldn’t come. Chocking back a…
Captian's Log The Masked Devil 13 Jan 202013 Jan 2020 The dissonant chords broke through the haze of my clouded thoughts, interrupting my troubled revelries. The figurine of Satan twirled as the music box ground out its pre-written tune. The…
Captian's Log Drabble: Burn It Down 12 Jan 2020 He sat there coolly, cigarette smoke rising in lazy arcs around his head, as they rattled the door. Muttering to himself more than anything, he advised the devils to quit.…