Captian's Log Soul Was Better 24 Feb 202520 Feb 2025 The mind escapes and I am lost. There is my confession: I don't know. I have this malady, old malady, and I do not always know who I am or…
Captian's Log Wandering Soul 18 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 The buckler rushed at my head, and I knew it would hit. I tried to dodge the blow, but a sharp pain preceded an overwhelming blackness. When I awoke, I…
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 Please Let Me Live 11 Feb 20253 Feb 2025 I thought, perhaps, that I would dream, or if not dream, I'd think. I thought, perhaps, to make my case, or else hear some rebuke. I thought, but thinking's done;…
Captian's Log Dancer 10 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 The dancing figure, frozen in bronze, extended an arm to heaven. I could almost imagine she was alive, such was the craftsmanship; in the corner of your eye, you would…
Captian's Log A Disagreeable Kerfuffle 6 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 "I hope in time we can move past this little kerfuffle," I said, stepping over the corpse. "And in the morning light of reflection, perhaps you'll understand that these things…
Captian's Log Ghost’s Parting Sigh 2 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 We watched for you, waited for the light in the dark. For how many ages have we been longing, hoping? All dead. I am the last. Only I and these…
Captian's Log There is a Prison 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 “There is a prison,” I said. “Is it just?” he asked. “And he waits in darkness.” “But is it just?” “Long ago, I commended him to the guard.” “If he…
Captian's Log Morning and Night 31 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 In the cool of the night a voice, a whisper on the sands, and I heard melody in my dreams. The smoke of the fire rose and twisted in the…
Captian's Log What Dreams Avail the Dead 30 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 I hope the words we sang tonight while drifting down the riverside are heard again some other time, that other voices sing again the rhymes we threaded between the stars.…