Captian's Log Winter’s Murder 25 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 How hungry winter left them. They had feasted mightily before the snow. During the battle, the streams had run red, and the corpses had burst in the autumnal sun. Now…
Captian's Log Layover 24 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 Coughing, growling, I cleared my throat. "Water," I begged in a whisper. A pleasant stream of pleasantries poured from the waitress as I sat upon a stool and as she…
Captian's Log Gun to My Head 23 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 There's a gun to my head and a drink in my hand in a second I'm dead and he tells me to stand "Do it slowly and quick or I'll…
Captian's Log Layover 22 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 As I walked over the black pavement, I felt the heat double. The sun above, cooking me and the road, the road below, hot as a frying pan, and I…
Captian's Log Twilights 21 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 The sleeper, the dreamer, the dead.The keeper, collector of heads.The wisher, deceiver, has fledand I will whisper what's said: For the stars will return in the night,and the skulls which…
Captian's Log Layover 20 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 The dusty road went on into the desolate plain, tapering until it fell out of sight in the far haze of heat which separated the clear, blue sky from the…
Captian's Log Wish You Were Here 19 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 As I sit with you, I wish you were here, but you're not. You're somewhere far, far away. I don't know where; maybe I've grown calloused, but I don't think…
Captian's Log Layover 18 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 There is a melancholy air in the noises a bus makes when it parks: a hissing; then the engine dies. You step out of this monster you've been riding in,…
Captian's Log A Place of Spirits 17 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 It is a place of spirits, of goblins and ghosts, and of sorrow. Like a dampness, you can taste the air and know that somewhere, somewhere near is…an epicenter. You've…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 16 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Yet, of the pagan gods, some voices said that they were demons dragging souls to Hell. Not all immortalities are equal; an indefatigable fire for the infamous, an endless suffering…