Captian's Log This is the City; I Hate It 13 Jul 202512 Jul 2025 The city waits below, a glittering spell of light. I see cars and trains, solid, square buildings and crisscrossing streets. A jewel in the night. Why don't they sleep down…
Captian's Log Interruptions 2 May 20251 May 2025 As I sit in my old yard this morning, watching the tips of the evergreens grow bright in the rising sun while all around the morning songs of various birds…
Captian's Log Nothing to Take in the End 31 Dec 202424 Sep 2025 Let us set the scene. The sun is low, but it has been low many hours now, and that dim glow on the horizon, changeless, growing neither darker nor brighter,…
Captian's Log Funeral for the Sun 21 Sep 2024 Sunset and rain, a silent walk, my reflection in the wet street. Cold, but I'm warm. The air is cold, but clean. The light is fading, and the streetlamps o'er…
Captian's Log Face of the City 31 Aug 2024 After I secure the clip to my ankles, I look out over the city. For a moment, as I wait, listening to the sounds of passing cars below, I finally…
Captian's Log Ghost City 22 Jul 202420 Jul 2024 Silent, it moved through the heavens, a massive city, dark and lifeless, its hundred towers a blocky shadow passing over the stars. Once the hub, the very nexus, of the…
Captian's Log A Tale 28 Nov 2023 I don't know how to get there, or what there really is, but I can tell you what was told me by a ragged man wandering down that mountain. Through…
Captian's Log The Hero Returns Home 17 Nov 2022 When I fought with dragons and ogres and all manner of nameless, boneless beasts that squirm in the muck of Oceanus, I had some thought I might win your love,…
Captian's Log Darkness There Forevermore 12 Nov 2022 I saw the sun set upon the city and knew it would never rise again. There would be nothing but darkness, darkness there forevermore. And the people of that city…