Captian's Log Deadly Morning Dew 9 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 Morning was in the air, the waiting flavor of daylight, when the fog rolled in from the sea. It climbed up the beach with the deft silence of a burglar,…
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 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 Happy 4th of July 4 Jul 20244 Jul 2024 Well, ladies and gents, what about that debate, uh? I didn't watch it, not really. I caught the tail end. I'm fairly sure that whoever's piloting the animatronic forgot to…
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 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 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…
Captian's Log A Killer’s Dying 26 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 A killer's dying, clutching lead filled guts,but these tears I'm crying—this scene my heart cuts— He was a man who had no home,but he would fight for ours.No more will…
Captian's Log A Hole in History 25 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 A deader man than he, whose dust has long been scattered across a million stars, who has no dead monument nor living memory, whose every deed and act—his effect upon…