Captian's Log From the Archives: Writing Everyday 11 Oct 2021 Still too busy to write. Family is more important. Took my niece to a Japanese garden. She loved it. Here's something I originally posted to https://thestoryclub.locals.com/ about how I write…
Captian's Log From the Archives: On Language 10 Oct 2021 So, family is visiting. My niece is adorable, and we had a lovely romp in the backyard. However, I don’t have time to write. I originally wrote this for https://thestoryclub.locals.com/ Language,…
Captian's Log From the Archives: Debate on Criticism 9 Oct 2021 So, family is visiting. My niece is adorable, and we had a lovely romp in the backyard. However, I don't have time to write. I originally wrote this for https://thestoryclub.locals.com/…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Machine of Our Dreams 8 Oct 2021 "You don't understand," I said. "I didn't design this!" He gazed at me fixedly, trying to master himself in spite of the drink. Setting his beer down, he said slowly,…
Captian's Log Poem: Your Mr. Grim Reaper 7 Oct 2021 Your Mr. Grim Reaper, some say he's a keeper, and other's a bag of bones. Our lady vampire, who lives in the spire, condemns with her careful tones. The doctor…
Captian's Log Poem: The Greatest Monster of them All 6 Oct 2021 I ask myself, what is the greatest monster of them all:Dracula with bloody fangs, who crawls along the wall?Perhaps the werewolf with his fur and deadly claws?Imhotep, maybe, with all…
Captian's Log Short: Imhotep Enthroned 5 Oct 2021 The ancient bandages had, throughout the long decades, fused to his flesh. His face had melted into his death shroud so that the pattern of the wrap seemed to be…
Captian's Log Poem: Night’s Serenade 4 Oct 2021 The soft serade of nightly noise infects my soul with longing sighs, and letting go, my heart enjoys the nightbird's sudden cries. The blackened sky, the twinkling stars, the dewy…
Captian's Log Poem: Snow and Ash 3 Oct 2021 Soft the flakes descend upon the waiting earth. How gently fall they to the ground. Why are my dreams so filled with snow? Why spy I winter from my bed?…
Captian's Log Everything! 2 Oct 2021 Sometimes, I like to work outside. I'll take a lawn chair and a little card table and set it under the cherry tree, and then I'll do whatever it is…
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