Captian's Log The King’s Fall 18 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The king, his face, one moment red with passion and wine, drained into the horrible colorlessness of a corpse. "I've…" he stammered. "Look to your love," said the prophet, pointing…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 17 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The blind prophet felt his way along the cold and abandoned corridor. Coming to the end of the hallway, he pushed through the unlatched doors leading into the king's chamber.…
Captian's Log Eventuality 16 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The Zombie is indomitable. That, I can't help but admire. No tribulation, no deterrence, no loss is counted in its mindless pursuit of flesh. Take its legs, it will crawl;…
Captian's Log The Hunt 15 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The vampire crawled back into his hole, feeling the soft earth mooching into every nook and cranny of his body, seeping into his nose, his ears, his mouth, and closing…
Captian's Log Induction 14 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 "What's all this then?" asked the general. Not turning around, I said, "Someone killed me the other day. That's the official story. So, to keep it official, I'm here, in…
Captian's Log The Treasures of Mrs. Bowers 12 Jan 2024 The late Mrs. Bowers was strangely fetching in her coffin. The amateur hands of her loving daughters had made of the eccentric character with which I was familiar a seemingly…
Captian's Log On Ice 11 Jan 20247 Jan 2024 Cold, the light was cold. He lay upon the obsidian slab and stared into the eternal night with its myriad stars. The small exoplanet, a rogue bit of debris lost…
Captian's Log Tears of God 10 Jan 20247 Jan 2024 How gentle is the river now,how slow and calm he seems,and yet 'twas just an hour sincethe banks were full of screams. An hour since a life he tookdown to…
Captian's Log Waiting to Die 9 Jan 20247 Jan 2024 A silence fell over me as the tyrant died, as he gurgled in his blood. A great man, in a way; not good, not loved—perhaps someone did love him—but great.…
Captian's Log Reunion 7 Jan 20246 Jan 2024 The zombie waited with perfect patience. He had a sort of stoicism or weariness in his deformed face, a bloated impassivity borne, no doubt, from his years trapped in this…
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