Captian's Log Come Down 5 Apr 2025 The clown is painting his face, so white, and gazing in the mirror. Slowly he's appearing there, and recognizing what he is. The grease he lays on thick; he spreads…
Captian's Log Short Story: Mr. Puckle-luckle 21 Jun 202415 Jun 2024 Please Read:Mr. Puckle-luckle https://taletold.wordpress.com/short-stories/mr-puckle-luckle/
Captian's Log The Last Act 20 May 202318 May 2023 They say the circus never ends, but I know how it tends. The clowns are coming in the night to do what isn't right. The tired crowds find life a…
Captian's Log Fortune Told 3 May 20232 May 2023 The fortune teller's got my hand and pulled my arm into her stand. Her finger's tickling my palm. Her face grows white, her eyes, not calm, are wide and staring…
Captian's Log Please Read: Coming Carnival 10 Apr 2023 Please Read: Coming Carnival https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/coming-carnival/
Captian's Log Twilit Carousel 27 Mar 2022 The twilit carousel turns and returns in ever slowing cycles. The ride is over and done—almost done—and we must get off. Inertia, that's all that keeps us spinning. Round and…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Freak’s Fortune 28 Jul 2021 Please Read: The Freak's Fortune Excerpt: The freak sits on his little wicker chair, his squinty eyes, like black marbles, following the passersby of the fair. Families and couples, young…
Captian's Log Poem: Deep in the Dark 22 May 2020 Deep in the darkness of nightwhere the sun never rises,lost and alone in a plightyou’ll find tickets and prizes. It’s a fair, it’s a merry-go-rounda carnival ride—can you hear the…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Deep in the Dark 21 May 2020 Deep in the darkness of nightwhere the sun never rises,lost and alone in a plightyou’ll find tickets and prizes. It’s a fair, it’s a merry-go-rounda carnival ride—can you hear the…
Captian's Log From the Typewriter: Evil Reflections 16 Jun 2019 Okay, so the typeface is unreadable like this. Fine! I'll type it out like a modern man living in 2019. (With a few odd corrections here and there, the…
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