Captian's Log Counting Broken China 16 Jun 202410 Jun 2024 The pronouncement of the queen was death, as it always was, though I had the temerity to ask her why. She scoffed, she sneered, her face turned red, but this…
Captian's Log Clean Up 9 Jun 20247 Jun 2024 Seeping through the plaster, slow as an army of slugs, the bloody ooze crawled. So, there was another portal, I thought. A good hiding place, behind the wall. Who would…
Captian's Log Impressions 23 Apr 202422 Apr 2024 "I know I upset him," I smile, forgetting myself. The big man fights a convulsive shudder while I quickly try to make my face as blank as I can. It's…
Captian's Log We Have to Tell Lucy 22 Mar 2024 "What'cha think?" I asked, not daring at first to look him in the face, but as the silence grew, I couldn't help but lift a cautious glance up to him.…
Captian's Log Free 3 Mar 20242 Mar 2024 It was as though a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. "I'm free," he said. Though the computer had recognized the shifts in the subject's body, the relaxation of…
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 Confusion 6 Jan 2024 "There are a thousand things I want to say, a thousand places I'd rather be, but you have to know. We found him, what was left. They'd got him. I…
Captian's Log Clarence 4 Jan 202426 Dec 2023 They sat in silence, the sort of silence a hospital offers with the ever moving nurses and busy doctors, the incessant blips and beeps of machines, the expectancy of life…
Captian's Log Clarence 3 Jan 202426 Dec 2023 The old man took hold of Clarence's chin, turning it right then left and peering down with a thoughtful hum. "No bites," he said. "That's good. Now," he sat back…
Captian's Log Clarence 2 Jan 202426 Dec 2023 The white curtains he woke up to confused him a moment, but the sounds of a hospital soon established a certain probability in the swirling soup of his thoughts. Floating…
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