Captian's Log Hope and Dread 23 Nov 202522 Nov 2025 The fog has cleared away. The morning mists are lifted heavenward, and a clear, bright day has come. Yet still, my troubled mind its own fog carries, haunted by fears…
Captian's Log Into a Darkness 16 Nov 2024 The dreams begin again, their soft, effervescent forms come and go like tendrils of fog never leaving a memory. I wait in the darkness, listening to the conversations I cannot…
Captian's Log Morning’s Nightmare 15 May 2024 Please Read: Morning's Nightmare https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/mornings-nightmare/
Captian's Log Facing Faceless Reflections 24 Apr 202422 Apr 2024 What horrid dreams: I pulled off my face, and there you were beneath the skin. How often did I suspect us? There was something about the mirror, some furtive way…
Captian's Log Beyond Black Birds 11 Mar 2023 This road is an icy river, frozen in time and space; this dream is a mistic's vision of some other place; this moment is forever, and yet has never been.…
Captian's Log Stand 19 Jan 2023 There are darker times ahead for you, my son, and worse than these will come. You must stand, you must, and there is no other choice. Time may seem unkind,…
Captian's Log From the Archives: What to Read? 28 Oct 2022 This was originally written for The Story Club, a community which lives on as The Story Ark. I strongly believe that it is important for writers to be readers; they must…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Carnival 15 Nov 2017 Please read my latest short story: The Carnival Here is a snippet: (A man comes under a large tent where a circus freak resides with an elaborately colorful, stuffed parrot.…
Captian's Log The Dread 17 Sep 201717 Sep 2017 The time is drawing near when my days will again be consumed by long commutes, incomprehensible lectures, and toilsome projects. As my last moments of peace wane to nothing, a…