Captian's Log The Old Men 30 Jan 202427 Jan 2024 One of the favorite grotesques of this forgotten people seems to have been the face of an old man. There are few variations beside something in the expression. Each one…
Captian's Log Court of the Pig Demon 24 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 The light was too great for him, and he blinded himself to the truth. The night was too long for him, and he decorated the darkness in dreams. The silence…
Captian's Log I Once Was Warm 23 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 Ploughing through the snow, I forced my shivering body forward, cursing the deep rut I leave in my wake. Not only would they follow me, but I was clearing the…
Captian's Log The Politician Never Dies 22 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 "I have been dead for three years," I began. Looking over the rotting faces of my audience, I swallowed. "I may not look it," I smiled, "but embalming has come…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 19 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 Of that great and fallen kingdom, no more history is recorded, for the earth has swallowed it up. Yet a popular song, whispered by those who remember and sung in…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 18 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The king, his face, one moment red with passion and wine, drained into the horrible colorlessness of a corpse. "I've…" he stammered. "Look to your love," said the prophet, pointing…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 17 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The blind prophet felt his way along the cold and abandoned corridor. Coming to the end of the hallway, he pushed through the unlatched doors leading into the king's chamber.…
Captian's Log Eventuality 16 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The Zombie is indomitable. That, I can't help but admire. No tribulation, no deterrence, no loss is counted in its mindless pursuit of flesh. Take its legs, it will crawl;…
Captian's Log The Hunt 15 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 The vampire crawled back into his hole, feeling the soft earth mooching into every nook and cranny of his body, seeping into his nose, his ears, his mouth, and closing…
Captian's Log On Ice 11 Jan 20247 Jan 2024 Cold, the light was cold. He lay upon the obsidian slab and stared into the eternal night with its myriad stars. The small exoplanet, a rogue bit of debris lost…
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