Captian's Log Short: World of Dust 3 Jun 2020 There, on the horizon where the piercing white sands meet with the sky’s unremitting blue separating the dead desert and the glorious heaven, is a faint haze. The horizon blurs,…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Desert Storm 17 May 2020 Tonight, there’s rain in the desert, and the storm’s like roaring lions. From West to East I see it fall, and from North to South it’s pouring. In the darkness,…
Captian's Log Drabble: He Waits 8 May 2020 The lord of the desert hides in a shadowed tomb, his burnt skin like shrinking, tearing leather resting over his bones. His face, set sardonically in an invariable grin, with…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Forgotten Dream 3 Jan 2020 I have felt better than now. I'm not exactly sick, but my sinuses are on the brink and I'm out of patience. Please forgive this less than lucid attempt at…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Desert 11 Oct 2019 A shadow passes overhead, and soon is joined by others. Circling, the vultures gather ‘round me in this dried desert. I don’t bother looking up; the miserable cretins may follow…
Captian's Log In a Dry Land 10 May 2019 Far from home he found a dried up tree, bleached white under the cruel sun, and for a moment sat on its crumbling roots, gazing over the riverbed, the dried…
Captian's Log No Memory 15 Jan 2019 In the desert of salt, one large, blistering sore swells, red and hot, an ugly interruption of an otherwise intensely white monotony. Periodically, the underground pressures seep through some hidden…
Captian's Log Poem: The Eye of Death 21 Sep 2018 Please read: The Eye of Death Excerpt: Pay no concern for how he died, nor where his body’s laid. Suffice it just to say he’s died and in a shallow grave.…
Captian's Log In Restless Dreams 26 Oct 2017 This is a continuation of another post you can read here: Hello Darkness. His spirit wandered through a desert which knew no mediation either of the overbearing fury of the…