Captian's Log Scattered 11 Oct 2023 How little is left: ashes, blown away in the wind without even a grave, no earth where they might rain down, no land to fertilize in their death. Our stories,…
Captian's Log The Fairies in Autumn’s Wind 10 Oct 2023 The winds where howling round his dizzy head, beating back his fever with their icy current. For a moment, his sinuses and thoughts cleared, and he took a deep, grateful…
Captian's Log Re: Plague of the Zombies 9 Oct 2023 I watched a movie yesterday, an old horror flick called Plague of the Zombies. It had some good acting, and some bad, but if you like this sort of nonsense,…
Captian's Log Dark Gods 8 Oct 20237 Oct 2023 How soft the shadow creeps the specter, Death, awaits and something in me weeps and something in me hates. Above me, clearest blue, above me, pine-tree bower, and here, a…
Captian's Log Apple Blossoms 7 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 What blessed days of rain have ended in this melancholy light, a window lit by a dying lamp. The strains of a bow, sawing quiet airs, mixes in the downpour…
Captian's Log Despair 6 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 You've been tailing me again, Despair, my favorite sin; how lovely you cast your shadow O unrelenting foe Whiskey drives you back for a spell, but I've too often to…
Captian's Log Deadly Colors 5 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 What deadly colors meet my eye; I know to see, it is to die, for death is knowledge, knowledge death, and here, within my final breath, a warning I must…
Captian's Log Kazadu Kadso Katza 4 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 They dream in Kazadu where the mists roll down from the mountain peaks like a cataract. The ever-falling rain hardly rises above a drizzle, and the calm, dark sea ripples…
Captian's Log Farewell 3 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 Vanity once welled in me, but I've become a sieve. And love once dwelt in me, but I've no more to give. Bury me as best befits the thing I…
Captian's Log The Windy Temple 2 Oct 202330 Sep 2023 Now comes the silent, floating temple, its obsequities occluded, its purpose shrouded in silence. No one is seen to go in, but it was said, by someone who drew too…