Captian's Log To Time and Chance the Rest 11 Mar 20258 Mar 2025 I turn my back on the dying man and his spluttering breaths. I can feel his eyes following me as he drowns in his own blood. His wheezing voice calls…
Captian's Log A New Morn 9 Mar 20257 Mar 2025 Here is the ending phantom, fading away as a new day begins. It was a pleasant dream to dream, comforting in its way, but now it ends. A shadow is…
Captian's Log The Shanty 6 Mar 20251 Mar 2025 I feel the burden of my journey now, feel the years and miles like a weight upon my back pressing me, grinding me down, as the final stretch is in…
Captian's Log Wandering 16 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 I have been walking for a long time now. It has been a long time. and my feet hurt. Sometimes I dream, sometimes, as the weariness overwhelms me, I think…
Captian's Log Time’s Silent Test 14 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 "They silenced me," I said, turning away. I forced myself to look at them and felt my face twisting itself into some sort of smile, probably a grimace. "Banished me…
Captian's Log Above the Desert’s Dunes 13 Feb 20257 Feb 2025 At the last moment, he jumped. Falling through the night, his whispered prayers were swallowed in the howling winds; he could not even hear his own voice. Then fire burst…
Captian's Log Escape 22 Sep 202421 Sep 2024 The scanty dancers seemed unconcerned with the looming clouds. There was music in the desert, and the heat had fled, though they were still sweating. Sweet and tender was evening…
Captian's Log Clearer Sight 28 Aug 202427 Aug 2024 The eagle's shadow passes, and I lift my eyes. Up there in cloudless heaven, he circles me, a darkness, some blurry shape, floating in the beautiful blue canopy overhead. It…
Captian's Log Crossing the Desert 8 Aug 20247 Aug 2024 I mount the rock and see the desert stretching out below, vast and endless desert, the sands swept along in low, continual gusts. The heat of the sun is upon…
Captian's Log Below in the Darkness 9 May 2024 The soft, and mellow tune, whispering in the shifting sands and passing through the ancient columns, a moment in my ear and gone. Such music in this deserted place of…