Captian's Log Monkey Bars 23 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Swing sets and slides abandoned. No riotous gambols at the monkey bars. No game of tag in the field. I sit across from the old playground watching an autumnal breeze…
Captian's Log The Aliens 22 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Hardly a day goes by, nowadays, without the aliens. I'm told by my daughter that we're not supposed to call them the aliens. Then she says to call them some…
Captian's Log Normie! 21 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's one of those rare exceptions where a bad movie becomes entertainingly bad. Smarter, better versed…
Captian's Log A Hundred Sails Unfurled 20 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 A hundred sails unfurled A thousand waves had pasthope born for a new worldfor something that would last. The storms that rocked and ragedhad spent themselves away, so then all…
Captian's Log The Face in the Dream 19 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 Once upon a time, mankind awoke from a dream with a great start. Some men with tears, some with screams, others in a clouded ecstasy, one or two opened eyes…
Captian's Log Lullaby 18 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 A voice calls over the sinking pits and treacherous calm of the marsh. Some little bird sings, I think, and for the distance and the rushes and the reeds, and…
Captian's Log Regal Adruin 17 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 Banners unfurled in every regal color. I had not seen such pageantry since the war, since those banners waved over the bloody field of Adruin, and the foes of man…
Captian's Log Hearth 16 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 Her smile warmed me a little, and despite the hour and all the noise, I tried to reciprocate. I'm not sure I was quite able to smile, but I nodded.…
Captian's Log Happy Ninth Birthday, Tale Told 15 Apr 202620 Mar 2026 Please enjoy a few posts from this past year. https://tale-told.com/2025/04/01/dancing-with-death/ https://tale-told.com/2025/05/02/interruptions/ https://tale-told.com/2025/06/13/i-think-so-brain-but-if-we-covered-ourselves-in-sackcloth-and-ashes/ https://tale-told.com/2025/07/03/a-postscript/ https://tale-told.com/2025/08/25/a-smile-breaks-across-the-dead-mans-face/ https://tale-told.com/2025/09/18/absalom-absalom/ https://tale-told.com/2025/10/18/out-of-breath/ https://tale-told.com/2025/11/13/for-many-things-i-am-thankful-today/ https://tale-told.com/2025/12/26/if-its-true/ https://tale-told.com/2026/01/13/conversations-with-myself/ https://tale-told.com/2026/02/14/love-nest-and-zombies/ https://tale-told.com/2026/03/20/between-heaven-and-earth/
Captian's Log The Thing Itself 14 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 There was a dream, an island in the sea of sleep. There was a dreamer who woke. He was a great dreamer, and his island remains though he does not.…
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