Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Appeal to Heaven 22 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 Beside him, her angel touched his arm, and he knew a peace that he, the person he had made himself, the character he'd created and lost himself to, had never…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Dark Night of the Soul 21 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 The ugly commanded the good, and the wolf hunt began. By the end of the year, he was cornered. Hungry, shivering, unshaven. His long and careful plans, his friends, his…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: A Prayer 20 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 The morning came, and all the city learned, the good, the bad, and the ugly, what their shadowy legend, their Dark Defender, had done in the night. The good could…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Lifted Up 19 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He hugged the little girl a little tighter and prayed to the God he hated and cursed, begging that distant tyrant to show some mercy, not for himself, not to…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: A Pause 18 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He might have stayed a long time, maybe forever, or maybe until the carcasses had rotted away, or until the bones had moldered and fallen into dust; more probably, until…
Captian's Log Justic & Mercy: Undone 17 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He would not let her see the bloody things that were left, protecting her even from himself, from what he was, from seeing what he had done, so he told…
Captian's Log Into a Darkness 16 Nov 2024 The dreams begin again, their soft, effervescent forms come and go like tendrils of fog never leaving a memory. I wait in the darkness, listening to the conversations I cannot…
Captian's Log Sparks 15 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The king passed me in the night as the fuller's hammer kept a steady beat, like a heart or the ticking of a clock. He's out there now, making ready…
Captian's Log Sparks 14 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 You say the king is dead, but I say he walked by me in the night. Not in regalia but the softer hues of a faded smock. There, of that…
Captian's Log Sparks 13 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The hammer fell, a steady rain of blows, making a music in the night, and by the fuller’s station I did rest, contemplating heaven's stars. The stable’s smell had wafted…