Captian’s Log – Page 98 – Tale Told

Song Beyond the Hills

8 Jan 20247 Jan 2024

What song is sung beyond the hills?What tune reaches my ear?This melody my longing thrillsthough I can barely hear. Sing on sweet maid I'll never know;sing sweet and soft tonight.I…

Reunion

7 Jan 20246 Jan 2024

The zombie waited with perfect patience. He had a sort of stoicism or weariness in his deformed face, a bloated impassivity borne, no doubt, from his years trapped in this…

Confusion

"There are a thousand things I want to say, a thousand places I'd rather be, but you have to know. We found him, what was left. They'd got him. I…

I Left the Fatal Dream

A still and silent moment passed I heard the mountain sigh I felt the river's weeping soul I knew I had to die. Some things are not, some others are,…

Clarence

4 Jan 202426 Dec 2023

They sat in silence, the sort of silence a hospital offers with the ever moving nurses and busy doctors, the incessant blips and beeps of machines, the expectancy of life…

Clarence

3 Jan 202426 Dec 2023

The old man took hold of Clarence's chin, turning it right then left and peering down with a thoughtful hum. "No bites," he said. "That's good. Now," he sat back…

Clarence

2 Jan 202426 Dec 2023

The white curtains he woke up to confused him a moment, but the sounds of a hospital soon established a certain probability in the swirling soup of his thoughts. Floating…

2024: The Beginning

1 Jan 202426 Dec 2023

Well, outside some unforeseen tragedy, the new year has begun. I failed at last year's resolution, somewhat, but I've also taken on a job that is very active and requires…

2023: The End

31 Dec 202326 Dec 2023

The last day of the year is here, or will be. I'm writing this a little ahead of schedule so I can take a bit of a break this last…

Clarence

30 Dec 202326 Dec 2023

He knew by a sharp and irrefutable instinct who it was. Who else would it be? Instantly, he was awake and sober, his hand reaching for the blessed beads he'd…