Captian's Log Crystalman’s Mask 8 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 We stand in silent wonder, dreaming dreams we can't forget, all while the dragon passes o're dressed in grey and clouded mist. I think I am myself tonight, and so…
Captian's Log Dei 7 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 I dwell on dreams beyond the stars where darkness bars the sane.And through that cloud a holiness which makes all struggles vain.Now all that was before are shadows cast against…
Captian's Log Zombie Drabble in the Woods 6 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 The zombie stumbled over the knotted deer trail. Falling, his ankle caught in the tangles of a long root, the monster lets out a cry—Was that fear? Pain?—and smashes its…
Captian's Log Quarry 5 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 I walked down the slope of an old quarry. It has long been abandoned, and the hole left, the shear cliff faces, the gradual pitch downward, and the silence of…
Captian's Log Candid 3 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Candid, moments shared between us, one of those uncounted transitions between events, something about getting in a car, passing through a doorway, walking down a hallway, these things don't really…
Captian's Log When Winter Ends 2 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 We filed through the snow, the winter air making each of us our own steam engine, our breaths rising in little, fading clouds over our heads. A train with only…
Captian's Log Re: Crescent Lake 1 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Dear Inquirer, There are chapters in one's life best edited out of a public biography, or at least greatly abridged. My time, my dark period, as you are calling it,…
Captian's Log A Digression | Notes on the Differing Types of Undeath 30 Jun 202429 Jun 2024 There seem to me to be different types of undeath. In the basic conceit, undeath is best described by Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: Neither living nor dead. We…
Captian's Log Zombie Reflection 28 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 The hungry corpses wander over me.I seek my refuge in a shallow grave.Beneath the floorboards, through a crack, I seea mirror that holds the whole undead conclave. Their stomping feet…
Captian's Log Undeath’s End 27 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 The ghoulish figure sat, grinning his lipless smile with a vacant stare, upon a stony bench under the flowering cherry whose dark trunk and branches held high the heartrendingly beautiful…
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