Captian's Log Companion 28 May 202326 May 2023 The difference between a good enemy and a good friend is vague at times. Death is both the dragon and the lady, it seems; something to conquer, and something that…
Captian's Log A Haunted Place 27 May 202325 May 2023 The mountain is a desolate place full of things that cannot die. Sun-bleached bones that still speak and long shadows that walk free in the night. There is water there,…
Captian's Log Necropolis 22 May 202320 May 2023 It is a quiet place inhabited by many hidden nests. It is hard for the mind to understand that infinity might be bound, but a checkerboard might stretch its four…
Captian's Log The Last Act 20 May 202318 May 2023 They say the circus never ends, but I know how it tends. The clowns are coming in the night to do what isn't right. The tired crowds find life a…
Captian's Log Walking Over My Grave 19 May 202318 May 2023 I felt the need to visit my grave today. I'm lucky enough to have one. It has my name on it; the year I was born; the year I died,…
Captian's Log Forget 16 May 202313 May 2023 A sea of dazzling colors swaying in the breeze, an ocean of perfumes, how subtlety they please, but I am dead. I'm dead, but yet I have not gone. Eaten…
Captian's Log Reflections of the Mind Pt. III 15 May 202313 May 2023 "Dr. Christoph, Dr. Christoph," someone is shaking my arm. I stretch, letting out a little groan. Blinking, I see Dr. Agonson at my side, raising a quizzical eyebrow. "What is…
Captian's Log Reflections of the Mind Pt. II 14 May 202313 May 2023 I see my reflection, faint, in the clear glass, my face like a ghost, the eyes black holes. Beyond, he sits. His chair is bolted to the floor; the chains,…
Captian's Log Reflections of the Mind Pt. I 13 May 2023 "Give him five more minutes." The episode is nearly over and done, and as the mania runs its course, the patient rocks in his chair, mumbling over and over: Do…
Captian's Log To See Hell 12 May 2023 Some crawled out of the flames. I sat on the roof of the old Subaru gazing into the inferno. As the sky darkened with night, the fire seemed only to…