Captian's Log Three Shorts 12 Oct 2021 Morgue: The morgue was quiet in the day, and the locks on the caskets were unnecessary. Once dawn broke through the window, the morgue was perfectly safe. But I could…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Machine of Our Dreams 8 Oct 2021 "You don't understand," I said. "I didn't design this!" He gazed at me fixedly, trying to master himself in spite of the drink. Setting his beer down, he said slowly,…
Captian's Log Poem: Your Mr. Grim Reaper 7 Oct 2021 Your Mr. Grim Reaper, some say he's a keeper, and other's a bag of bones. Our lady vampire, who lives in the spire, condemns with her careful tones. The doctor…
Captian's Log Poem: The Greatest Monster of them All 6 Oct 2021 I ask myself, what is the greatest monster of them all:Dracula with bloody fangs, who crawls along the wall?Perhaps the werewolf with his fur and deadly claws?Imhotep, maybe, with all…
Captian's Log Short: Imhotep Enthroned 5 Oct 2021 The ancient bandages had, throughout the long decades, fused to his flesh. His face had melted into his death shroud so that the pattern of the wrap seemed to be…
Captian's Log Poem: Night’s Serenade 4 Oct 2021 The soft serade of nightly noise infects my soul with longing sighs, and letting go, my heart enjoys the nightbird's sudden cries. The blackened sky, the twinkling stars, the dewy…
Captian's Log Poem: Snow and Ash 3 Oct 2021 Soft the flakes descend upon the waiting earth. How gently fall they to the ground. Why are my dreams so filled with snow? Why spy I winter from my bed?…
Captian's Log Drabble: Heel! 30 Sep 2021 "Time can never heel." "Don't say that." "Well, it can't." "Yes, it can. Tell me what's wrong." "I just said. Time can't heel." "I know, but what is it. What…
Captian's Log Dialogue: The Unobserved Bullet 29 Sep 2021 "Nothing exists outside of perception, which is not to say that all perception is true. The false and the true both exist as perceptions, are both real—" "What about a…
Captian's Log Poem: Broken 28 Sep 2021 A heart that keeps breaking is a heart that keeps waking to a smile that keeps faking what no one else believes. All the time it's aching and labours in…