Captian’s Log – Page 143 – Tale Told

Rough Draft: Disillusioned

16 Oct 202215 Oct 2022

"Death is the illusion we present when we can no longer live," the white bearded lector concluded. "A dream we share of dreamlessness. A dream of never waking." A scattered…

Forget

So, a friend of mine on twitter gave me a "Would you rather…" scenario, and I found it very insightful, partially because I knew my answer immediately, and partially because…

…And Vampires

Why do I love vampires? Is it just that I read Dracula when I was young and impressionable? Well, that love, however it began, has not ended there: a few…

Desert Mountain

Water! A drop of rain. Just the sound of a creek in this desolate mountain. Dust! Dust is all around. I have no air but what's filled with this swirling…

Singing Secrets

12 Oct 202212 Oct 2022

There is a secret I could tell which may drag you into Hell. There is a name I'd whisper here that would fill you full of fear. There is a…

An Interruption

I sat in my cell, cold and tired. The little straw cot had offered me no rest nor warmth, and I had returned to my writing desk. It had been…

Scarlet

Message: The vampires are dead. I mean, I know they're dead, but they're dead dead, like, not alive or undead. Just dead. Some have returned to the dust, others to…

Read: The Madness of Reality

9 Oct 20228 Oct 2022

Please Read:The Madness of Reality Excerpt: I was expecting some Lovecraftian monstrosity that would burn my mind like it had Lance's, or, I had wondered, maybe the terror would be…

Thinking

Once opening, the mind will close, and that's called thinking, I suppose. It opens to ingest a thought, but never closing goes to rot. I think of lunch, and dinner…

Haunted Hanging

They hung him on a Saturday,and by that ev'ning filled his grave.In potter's field his body lay.For him no tongue a prayer gave. But in that night new terrors crept.A…