Captian's Log Crystal Sun 15 May 2020 I was in the barn that first snow. Sweat was gathering on me, mixing with the dust. I could feel the dirt of the day clinging to my burning skin.…
Captian's Log Poem: If Only 14 May 2020 If time would last forever If this moment would never end If the stars would stay and the moon would halt in the sky I could wait here for you,…
Captian's Log Drabble: I Dream 13 May 202014 May 2020 Here now I am dreaming that the sun is breaking through, and that the clouds are being driven away. I am dreaming that there is a blue sky again, that…
Captian's Log Drabble: Passing Away 12 May 202011 May 2020 There is a place for me, but for now I am lost in this storm, caught in it. I have no direction; I have only patience. I plod forward, not…
Captian's Log Drabble: In the Darkness 11 May 2020 I felt the rain before it fell, tasted it upon the air, the very scent of the wind was ready for it, but for all that, when the rain finally…
Captian's Log Unknown 10 May 2020 I myself am not an anthropologist, but there exists within me a fascination with humanity. I remember once, having traveled farther than my map prescribed—into that realm of foreboding dragons—when…
Top Ten Books Closing Thoughts on Agonson’s Top Ten 9 May 2020 P. G. Wodehouse & James Thurber There are two authors I’d like to talk about as I close Agonson’s Top Ten. My father would read each of them to me…
Captian's Log Drabble: He Waits 8 May 2020 The lord of the desert hides in a shadowed tomb, his burnt skin like shrinking, tearing leather resting over his bones. His face, set sardonically in an invariable grin, with…
Captian's Log Moving On 7 May 2020 It was over . . . Done. I was done. There was nothing left to do. The hum of the car’s air conditioner was the only sound I could hear.…
Captian's Log Fear and Slavery 6 May 2020 Two of my all time favorite movies are The Matrix and The Truman Show. Now, for anyone who doesn’t know, these are both based off of very similar premises: They…