Captian's Log Happy Ninth Birthday, Tale Told 15 Apr 202620 Mar 2026 Please enjoy a few posts from this past year. https://tale-told.com/2025/04/01/dancing-with-death/ https://tale-told.com/2025/05/02/interruptions/ https://tale-told.com/2025/06/13/i-think-so-brain-but-if-we-covered-ourselves-in-sackcloth-and-ashes/ https://tale-told.com/2025/07/03/a-postscript/ https://tale-told.com/2025/08/25/a-smile-breaks-across-the-dead-mans-face/ https://tale-told.com/2025/09/18/absalom-absalom/ https://tale-told.com/2025/10/18/out-of-breath/ https://tale-told.com/2025/11/13/for-many-things-i-am-thankful-today/ https://tale-told.com/2025/12/26/if-its-true/ https://tale-told.com/2026/01/13/conversations-with-myself/ https://tale-told.com/2026/02/14/love-nest-and-zombies/ https://tale-told.com/2026/03/20/between-heaven-and-earth/
Captian's Log The Thing Itself 14 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 There was a dream, an island in the sea of sleep. There was a dreamer who woke. He was a great dreamer, and his island remains though he does not.…
Captian's Log Even, Now 13 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 Doom became a sort of peace. As I fell, expecting nothing but death in the end, I knew there was nothing I could do. In that knowledge, in that acceptance,…
Captian's Log Reality 11 Apr 2026 I'd hoped, but I see now it ain't so. No, it ain't, not the way I thought at first. I'd hoped, but I see. So walk with me awhile, if…
Captian's Log To a Wasp 10 Apr 202631 Mar 2026 "These great men of yours," I asked, "were they ever children?" "Children?" "Did they ever dream or cry? Were they ever dirty? Were they ever exhausted at the end of…
Captian's Log Rough Draft | An Unfinished Beginning: The Hanged Man 8 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 A Note: A few different influences working here, the most striking was thinking I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a metal sculpture of a man hanging from…
Captian's Log The Next Step 7 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 Through the fog, only a shadow of the next step appears. As I set my foot down, I feel the solid stone-laid path against my sole. There is music, somewhere,…
Captian's Log The Fall 6 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 The mighty giant did not fall all at once once he was dead. Rampaging across the mountains, his feet wet with the blood of men and beasts, his heart was…
Captian's Log The Alien 4 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 As I go through the old ritual of adjusting the mirrors, I cannot help but see my own face, twisted, bloated, colorless. Hardly human anymore. The contours are too smooth,…
Captian's Log The Alien 3 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 I hear the dancing music, and the voices of happy youth. I think, even, I can smell the sweat. Earth. It has been a long time. Standing under the eaves…