Captian's Log The Fairies in Autumn’s Wind 10 Oct 2023 The winds where howling round his dizzy head, beating back his fever with their icy current. For a moment, his sinuses and thoughts cleared, and he took a deep, grateful…
Captian's Log A Tale Told by Firelight 18 Mar 2023 In all my travels, I have only one tale to tell that could be called a ghost story. It was after the battle of Torkan. I had been stripped of…
Captian's Log Fairy Tale: The Fruit of a Dead Tree 22 Dec 2022 Please Read: The Fruit of a Dead Tree Excerpt: There’s an old, dead tree, all twisted up and rotten. I suppose the gods had disliked it, for its outer bark…
Captian's Log Can’t Be 25 Jun 2022 By some happenchance, a river diverges around a long, thin island. It is a wide river, and the little island might at times feel itself alone in the world. Only…
Captian's Log Poem: Once Upon a Time 16 Nov 2020 Open your heart Now that you hear Calling your name Evergreen Woods Under their eaves Ponder the day; Over their roots, Note now the sun Always it's here Those who…
Captian's Log Essay: Bookends 10 Jul 2020 Once upon a time . . . I love that phrase. It brings to mind all the gentle wonder of childhood, all the sweet imaginings of boyhood, and, for me,…
Captian's Log Poem: Will-O-Wisp 23 Jun 2020 The haunting glow there through the mist —so quickly fading out of sight— of what, pray tell, does it consist? What be this strange and eerie light? A will-o-wisp, I’m…
Captian's Log Dying Land 14 Sep 201914 Sep 2019 Over the moor, their lanterns leading, the distant fairies my window pass. I noticed them last night. Again this night they journey on. I fear this exodus, that soon no…
Captian's Log Short Story: Inflection 11 Jun 2019 I am a normal man with one extraordinary feature. It is nothing intrinsic to myself, but an accident of circumstance, very long ago now, made me privy to a world…
Captian's Log The Werewolf Epic (Joining Soul to Soul) 2 Jun 2019 Read: The Werewolf Epic (Well, this is a rather long time coming) The Addition: The werewolf oozed not blood from the deep wound, but some sick slime accompanied coiled entrails which…