Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 16 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 The punishment of the dead is his main theme here. He thinks they thought that justice compelled them to take almost the opposite position of the ancient Egyptians. Only the…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 15 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 "…be it not forgotten, then, that the best authorities," whom he never cites, "hold that the buried figures of their gods support the thesis that some sort of chthonic cult…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 What are dreams? I am no child. Dreams come and go. I do not hold onto them. But I too have been robbed of sleep this night and hoped for…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 13 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Strange dreams have assaulted me this night. I fought with beasts of darkness and thunder whose evil laughter haunts me now. Their unseen faces hid some knowing smirk. I fended…
Captian's Log The Sleeping Dragon 11 Jan 2025 Well, once when I was young, I sat beside a dragon. The sleeping wyrm never knew and never came to know. His long snoring eased my mind; and the black…
Captian's Log In the Candlelight 10 Jan 2025 The candlelight's soft, unsteady glow makes the curl of her lips' little smile like sunset on a hill. How I would take my measured, easy stroll down those slopes, my…
Captian's Log Eyes of Flame 8 Jan 2025 The flames, still living, burned, stretching their hot tongues up toward a clouded and darkening heaven; they cared not nor knew the blackened husk was dead, their job done, accomplished.…
Captian's Log Face to Face 7 Jan 2025 Torn from gentle dreams and animal desires, staring open mouthed, the beast admiresoverhead, the hanging portrait:O what horrid fate!Himself there.Beware:Bygone gloriesmade mere memories.Man no longer man what art?Thou but residue,…
Captian's Log Amazed 6 Jan 2025 The slaughter was amazing. That seemed a bathetic descriptor, but amazing it was. The hapless carnage, leaving no escape into ignorance, no matter how willful, buggered the mind. You simply…
Captian's Log Memories of a Shadow 4 Jan 2025 "The silent silhouette, passing through the light, there and gone, is burned into my mind. Someone else was there. A savior, perhaps. It's not much to go on, a memory…
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