Captian's Log Preparing for Halloween 25 Oct 2021 We never get trick-r-treaters where I live. This makes me sad. Every year, I buy candy, just in case, hoping that some little spook will come down our driveway and…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Miner’s Tale 24 Oct 2021 Deep in the earth, wrapped in chthonic shadow, they writhe, pulling against their adamantium chains. No one knows who bound them, what they are, but we hear them. When we're…
Captian's Log Poem: 13 23 Oct 2021 Three and ten And all dead men. Four and nine, This isn't fine. Five and eight, You've come too late. Seven here It's time to fear. With a six Thrown…
Captian's Log Poem: The Sacrament of Sleep 22 Oct 2021 What happens in the silent spell between the dusk and dawn? Upon this darkness long I dwell now that the day is gone. Methinks that half the world is mad,…
Captian's Log The Empty City 21 Oct 2021 The fevered rain fell like waves over the city and her bare streets, fell splashing and crashing over her deserted roads. Her gutters gurgled and spat, her sewers overflowed, and…
Captian's Log Poem: Halloween 20 Oct 2021 Hear the wind wailingAcross the darkened streetsListen to the howlsLonging for tasty treatsOpen your eyesWitness a surpriseEveryone in costume Escaping a fake tombNot a one without a smile
Captian's Log Short: Our Last Night 19 Oct 2021 The fading light stretched through the wall of windows, painting the apartment orange. He sat in his chair, facing the sunset, his rifle resting upon his lap. "The world's last…
Captian's Log Drabble: Kept Safe 18 Oct 2021 What's left to me of my mind, I keep in a matchbox. Sometimes, I like to shake it, hear it rattle around. Mostly, I don't think about it. I don't…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Slow Consumption of Mr. Duke 17 Oct 2021 "The Frog King ate Mr. Duke," I said. "So, that happened." "Mr. Duke?" "Yeah, the delegate from the Triple Green. His tongue just shot out and then Mr. Duke was…
Captian's Log Poem: From Year to Year 16 Oct 2021 There is a quiet place I knowthat's never touched by winter's snow.There is a land uncharted yeto'er which the sun will never set. Its fields are green, its valley wide,its…
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