Captian's Log Drabble: Black Heavens 16 Aug 2021 You could hear the distant showers climbing over the hill, and feel the air grow colder with every breath. The sky was darkening, and white explosions of lightning streaked through…
Captian's Log Short: Knock, Knock 15 Aug 2021 I knocked my knuckles against the coffin lid. "You up?" I whispered down to the corpse. There was a feeble tapping from within. "Wrong answer!" I said, throwing the coffin…
Captian's Log Drabble: Cold, Ancient, Dead 14 Aug 2021 Cold, ancient, dead. The planet lay below, a lifeless sphere. Crumbling ruins stood like mountains in the vast, frozen deserts; falling cities, like thick forests, held their echoed secrets within.…
Captian's Log Drabble: Guests 13 Aug 2021 A strange pall fell over me as I considered his words. Out the window, a melodramatic flash of lightning streaked across the dark blue sky, and I waited for the…
Captian's Log A Moment of Asthma 12 Aug 2021 The red moon hung over the city, a thin, bleeding cut in the black heavens. The summer night raged like a sauna under the ashen sky. I couldn't breathe. Wheezing…
Captian's Log Voices 11 Aug 2021 "Who are we?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, like, we're the ominous voices that say things at the beginnings of books and movies and stuff, right?" "Yeah." "Well, I…
Captian's Log Death of the Masked Queen 10 Aug 2021 A spiderweb of fissures spread across her porcelain mask. Her shadowed eyes stared out at me as though about to ask the reason I had cast my deadly bolt into…
Captian's Log Drabble: Balloon 9 Aug 2021 Tears crept into his eyes, and he grinned a wild grin. The earth was falling away. He leaned over the edge of the basket as the fire filled the balloon…
Captian's Log From the Pen: Hidden Streams 8 Aug 20216 Aug 2021 Gentle Death, Simple Life, What is Love to thee? Awful Grave, Wonderous Song, all have come to me. Who can sleep in earthen bed and swim among the stars? Who…
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