Captian's Log Black & White 4 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 I'm usually a fan of the David Suchet Poirot. However, I think there is something missing or wrong about the tone of his version of "Murder on the Orient Express."…
Captian's Log They Call Home 3 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 Standing alone as the night comes on, listening to the sounds of the sea and shore, I do not yet want to turn back toward the hotel. Sitting, therefore, on…
Captian's Log For Charon 2 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 A bird was dead. Its little body lay upon the pavement. Shot, I think; its breast a dark well of frozen blood. The ground is frozen too; even at noon,…
Captian's Log Hear the Call 1 Feb 202624 Jan 2026 So soft the sound which playsso light the tune I hearso strange the dream I dreamedso odd the vision here. I know I knew but what I knowI cannot now…
Captian's Log Where Is the Cat!? 31 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 How soft he treads the snowHis padded feet without a soundNo one sees now where he goesbut fear he is around. The tiger's whitethe snow is brightwind in your ear—howls…
Captian's Log Moonstruck 30 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Gliding over the lake, the calm surface like a mirror, when the clouds parted and the full light of the moon shone down—as I was so silently escaping, my oars…
Captian's Log In the Wind 29 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Sometimes, I remember, and I want to weep. It hits me, harder than you know. But then again, I forget it so quickly and cannot account for these tears rolling…
Captian's Log Re-Cleansed 28 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 "But don't you see how all this would never have happened without that tragedy?" "You throw shit in my face, and when I have cleaned myself, say 'I have cleaned…
Captian's Log At the Café 27 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 I watched the service droid's graceful movements. Dancing from table to table, it poured the coffee and refilled glasses in noiseless, almost ghostlike, intrusions so that the patrons, in their…
Captian's Log Desert Rain 26 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Water was in the air, the scent of falling rain. Something, something primordial, clicked inside of me. I hardly knew what I knew. I ran in the night, and my…
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