Captian's Log It’s Over the Silhouette, Stars 10 Jun 202610 Jun 2026 "It's over!" he shouted. "You've won." The silhouette in the doorway said nothing. "Look around you! Everything's on fire. We're careening toward Earth. You've killed us all." A blinking readout…
Captian's Log After 7 Jun 20266 Jun 2026 And the song ends. The bleachers empty. The lights on the stage are off. I cry in my loneliness. Oh God, an eternal song, to be in a chorus forever.…
Captian's Log Shadow Dancers 6 Jun 2026 Death's soft tread and the tolling bell,Life's long sigh and silent farewelland the dancer is so pretty, so beautiful, on the stage. The lights are on her moving form, and…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Opening Remarks at a Mad Science Convention 5 Jun 20269 Jun 2026 Additionally, the genius of Dr. Frankenstein was bound by certain conventions. Even Dr. Pretorius was captive to the human form in his experiments. Our forebearers were, in the end, imitators…
Captian's Log Broken Sword 2 Jun 2026 Such sorrow touched my soul, I could not lift my head. Never would I be whole.My lady lay there dead. What madness then was mine, my mind cleft by despair.I'd…
Captian's Log The Smallest Thing 1 Jun 20266 Jun 2026 An atom, the original meaning of the word, was the idea that if you broke things down to their basic elements, the smallest thing you could break things down to…
Captian's Log Crow + Mirror 31 May 202630 May 2026 Still feeling real sick. Got another round of antibiotics. Hopefully this does the trick. Here's a very short piece: And when you touched my soul, it burst,a thousand shards of…
Captian's Log Helpful Voices 29 May 2026 We think you ought to change the channel. The thought burst into my mind from seemingly nowhere, and before I'd had time to even consider it, I was flipping through…
Captian's Log Look Me in the Eye 28 May 2026 "Look me in the eye." "Which one?" I stammered. "The… um… the big one." "This one?" "Sure. That's not the big one, but sure. No, stop. Just pick one eye…
Captian's Log Up From the Drain 27 May 2026 The gelatin moved in rapid undulations. The still mass of slime which had to that point lain dormant was suddenly alive. Leaping from its bed with grasping and unformed strands…