Captian's Log Short: The Turning of the Tide 11 Jan 2022 "It's rather relaxing," I said. He groaned groggily. I kicked his limp head, and he sputtered out profanities. "Wake up," I said. "What the hell!" he shouted. "It's peaceful," I…
Captian's Log Poem: The Salesman 10 Jan 2022 We sell the parts you need or want,an arm, an ear, some legs to flaunt.Don't ask us where our stores come from.Try a spare eye? Some toes? A thumb?I see,…
Captian's Log Short: Twenty Years 9 Jan 2022 The tears of twenty years finally burst from his eyes. Everything. His whole life, his whole sorry, miserable life, came at him like a flood. He was not okay, and…
Captian's Log Short: The Stranger in the Storm 8 Jan 2022 The storm had come, and something else, a monster, unimaginable; a boneless, shifting thing had pulled itself from the seafloor. Had the storm dredged it up, or had the wind…
Captian's Log All Aboard! 7 Jan 2022 I think Joker and Thor: Ragnarok are the same movie, or at least, two separate movies focused on the same subject, one looking down at it and the other looking…
Captian's Log Short Story: Redeeming the Beggar 6 Jan 2022 The eyeless wretch was squatting there, begging in the streets, his supplicating bowl held over his bowed head. I stopped and let my shadow fall over him. "Do you know…
Captian's Log Random Shorts 5 Jan 2022 Some of us accept death . . . . . . sometimes in faith . . . . . . sometimes in despair. But some refuse to die. That's where…
Captian's Log Drabble: Hangry 4 Jan 2022 "The vampires are getting hangry." "Hangry?" "Yeah, it's a portmanteau. It's hungry plus angry. Hangry, get it?" "Yeah, I get it," he said, barely suppressing a groan. "I'm more concerned…
Captian's Log Turn of the Year 3 Jan 2022 I don't have a head for statistics, so I Googled it: four. Give or take, every second, four babies are born. Four miracles. Four worlds created. So, the very second…
Captian's Log Drabble: For Whom the World Sings 2 Jan 2022 The ancient song is heard again by the infant laying low. Once more the age old melody is played. Sing, O world. O rivers, hum. O trees, shake your leaves.…
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