Captian's Log Persevere 21 Mar 202416 Mar 2024 The worn and weary warrior stumbled past the prostrate worshipers toward their bloody god. His sword felt heavy. It was, perhaps, the one piece of his armament he'd managed to…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 10 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 And, in its shadow, we have ourselves become deathless, dreamless, sleepless. No, only a dull sense of time still remains, but it is time without an edge, without an end,…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 9 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 Cast from heaven, their bodies fell like drops of blood upon the dusty ground, and no one dared touch the cursed fowl lying in the dead thing's shadow. Oddly preserved,…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 8 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 The dead thing lay in the sky like a dripping, rotting sore. It was flesh, as far as the senses of man, earthbound man, could tell—that is, as far as…
Captian's Log At the End of the Day 6 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 He dropped the red pen and watched the sun set. Whatever dreams passed through his wandering thoughts, he did not cling to, and with the same subtlety by which they…
Captian's Log At the End of the Day 5 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 As though waking, the teacher's eyes suddenly came back to the empty desks and quiet room. Light and shadow; the warm evening light fell onto the scene with all the…
Captian's Log At the End of the Day 4 Mar 2024 The teacher sighed, his gaze wandering from his papers. The sun was setting, its golden light streaming in and painting the empty classroom with its enchanting hue. His eyes looked…
Captian's Log Stars in the Darkness 13 Dec 2023 And in the deadly night, I paused, a moment's sigh, and gazed above my head into the starry sky. A glimpse was all I caught before the time was done,…
Captian's Log Smiling in the Dark 15 Nov 2023 The smiling thing in the darkness of my dreams perturbs me. Is it just a smile, a wicked, spreading smile filled with laughter and delighting in some secret-kept malice, or…
Captian's Log I Was Dead at the Time 19 Oct 202314 Oct 2023 I should perhaps admit that at the time I was dead. My heart had stopped, and a nurse was doing his best to get it going again. There was a…