Captian's Log The Sun Rises 10 Aug 2019 Some say ignorance is the root of evil, and simple knowledge can make a man repent; they dream that darkness and light, the one emptying itself into the other, is…
Captian's Log Short Story: Belonging 11 Jul 2019 He would never really be one of them. Around him the music played, and the swaying bodies of half sober soldiers and their women, all covered in the stench of…
Captian's Log Poem: The Gods of Death 2 Jul 20192 Jul 2019 The Great Worm The Worm, it eats, and worms devour the subtlest forms of man. The Worm, loveless, in empty bower consumes all life began. The Darkness The spreading shadows…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Under the Sun 7 Jun 2019 Though beauty surround me everywhere, and all the birds are singing in the air, though far the woes of all my life are scattered, gone is all my strife, it…
Captian's Log Sound of Silence 24 May 2019 There are sad refrains in a life, repeated bars which bring no joy to hear. I knew a mythical creature called a griffin. I had little love for this beast,…
Captian's Log Gentle Night 3 Apr 2019 I'm sick, and I don't want to do anything. Here is a short narrative. Now go away. Closing the door behind me, I step out into the cold night. The…
Captian's Log Short Poem: In the Darkness are Chains 30 Mar 201930 Mar 2019 In the darkness are chains, and in the shadows bondage. Sweetness and light are freedom; bitterness and death enslave. In this pit I cannot hope. We clasp our chains tenderly;…
Captian's Log The Dark Returns 24 Mar 2019 With heavy breaths he stopped to rest, leaning against a streetlamp. It was in this position that the darkness found him. He felt the chill run over his clammy skin,…
Captian's Log One Step at a Time 23 Mar 2019 He shouts the questions into the dark surrounding, into the ever-present dark which follows him into the day or the night, its oppressive presence suffocating him week by week, year…
Captian's Log 22 Dec 2018 No peels of thunder came with threats of rain, but soft trickles met the tired sun in his descent. Emboldened in the darkness of this winter, they storm with bitter…