Captian's Log The Road Home 19 Apr 2023 The carpenter's saw sang as it cut through the beam. I smiled, listening to the rhythm of the workman's arm moving up and down. A sparrow twitters somewhere in the…
Captian's Log Desolate 18 Apr 2023 The wind raged through the empty streets, but none would know. No ear was left to hear the shrieking wails, nor was there an eye that would be blurred by…
Captian's Log Consequences 13 Apr 2023 The dead are with me, their sorrow and forgotten hopes like cavities in the ether. They know you. The dead may forget many things, their names, their loves, but someone…
Captian's Log Pseudo 12 Apr 2023 The broken soul is no safer than the whole. The fire comes for both. A dreamer cannot wake but that he dies, and death's the path to dreams. Satan casts…
Captian's Log The Last Dragonslayer 2 Apr 202329 Mar 2023 The sepulcher of the last knight is a cold crypt hewn of uncompromising stone. He lies in its center, his bones hidden under his carved image. The supine facsimile is…
Captian's Log The Last Dragonslayer 1 Apr 202329 Mar 2023 "Your world was founded because men slew dragons, defended the people. You are the last of that tradition, worthy of the name dragonslayer for your deed—" "I seek no honors…
Captian's Log The Last Dragonslayer 31 Mar 202329 Mar 2023 The young man's eyes fell, his hands folded; he seemed to be talking more to himself than to anyone at the table—not even to the man clad in black armor:…
Captian's Log The Last Dragonslayer 30 Mar 202329 Mar 2023 The ruin of a great man, standing there, dressed still in the ornamental black armor of tradition, raiment made long ago obsolete by gunpowder, the last aristocrat, his dark countenance…
Captian's Log The Last Dragonslayer 29 Mar 2023 "I have nothing to say. I have no more dreams. I've gone down every path I can think to walk. It's all meaningless. I'll leave it to you to plan,…
Captian's Log No Return 22 Mar 2023 So many billion stars, and not one of them's my home. Lost, in a sea of unending time, buried in the desert sands of the past, the world I come…