Captian's Log You’re Dead 21 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 "If you were dead, would you want to know?" I ask. The waitress had just taken our orders and menus from us, and my friend was sipping his lager while…
Captian's Log Excelsior 20 Jan 2025 We now have a president. It's strange to say. There is hope again for our country. God Kept Trump alive by a miracle; I pray this will be a new…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 17 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 You make me shiver. It is as though you have peered into my thoughts, for I saw the gods, gods of Egypt and Greece and the monsters of far distant…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 16 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 The punishment of the dead is his main theme here. He thinks they thought that justice compelled them to take almost the opposite position of the ancient Egyptians. Only the…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 15 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 "…be it not forgotten, then, that the best authorities," whom he never cites, "hold that the buried figures of their gods support the thesis that some sort of chthonic cult…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 What are dreams? I am no child. Dreams come and go. I do not hold onto them. But I too have been robbed of sleep this night and hoped for…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 13 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Strange dreams have assaulted me this night. I fought with beasts of darkness and thunder whose evil laughter haunts me now. Their unseen faces hid some knowing smirk. I fended…
Captian's Log The Sleeping Dragon 11 Jan 2025 Well, once when I was young, I sat beside a dragon. The sleeping wyrm never knew and never came to know. His long snoring eased my mind; and the black…
Captian's Log Eyes Closed 9 Jan 2025 Sometimes the image of the thing eclipses the thing itself. Have you never stared into a lightbulb and become blind? Once learned, how can we unlearn? If we cannot be…
Captian's Log The Ending 20 Dec 2024 The wall was missing here, a gaping wound where the bomb had gone off. Death clung to the place even as nature reclaimed what had been the domain of man.…
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