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: 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…
Captian's Log Drabble: Decoy 27 Sep 2021 He lay in the snow, his breath rising in little, white puffs. The soft rumble of the approaching engine grew, and he rested the barrel of his rifle against a…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 24 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 "He hated me because he would never inherit. Never could inherit. After paying the death taxes, I . . . I just . . . I could feel John hating…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 23 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 "You don't want to understand it," said Dr. Val, twirling his mustache. "But you know. If you will, you'll remember. What was it he always said to you? What did…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 22 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 "And what did you find?" he asked me. "It's empty." "Yes, and what does that tell you?" "He's out, he's alive somehow." "No? But you saw him dead." "He was…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 21 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 With a whine of the hinges, the lid came, and I gazed into the darkness of that box. Nothing but shadows therein. From out the deepest recesses of my mind,…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 20 Sep 202119 Sep 2021 My musings were interrupted by something new, the hollow sound of a spade hitting a coffin. I sent the workers out of the hole and jumped in. Brushing away the…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: The Exhumation 19 Sep 2021 The rhythm of the two shovels went in and out of frequency. For a while, they sang together, then one would slow, the clods of earth they cast no longer…
Captian's Log Poem: Along Life’s Way 17 Sep 2021 The darkness lay before the man along the road he knew he had to walk. He stared into that shadowed veil. Anon, to no one did he talk: "What's now…
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