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.…
Captian's Log The End of the Affair 1 Jan 2022 I asked him to sit down. At first, he seemed hesitant, standing there with his dripping jacket still hanging off him. Then his eyes wavered, and he searched out the…
Captian's Log 2021: The End 31 Dec 202131 Dec 2021 As the year ends and I glance over the triumphs and failures of this last cycle, I wonder how to correlate it. I see victories and defeats, but ask, overall,…
Captian's Log Musings on the Evergreens 30 Dec 2021 The snow has mostly melted off the evergreen sentinels surrounding my house, and the temperature might get up to a blistering 40° F outside. (F, of course, stands for Freedom,…
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