Captian's Log Quiet in the Library 4 Feb 20243 Feb 2024 It is quiet in the library. I cannot hear a sound here except for the beating of my heart, the incessant whooshing of my lungs, and the thousand other burbling,…
Captian's Log I Am 2 Feb 2024 I sat, my eyes glued to the blaze. There the bodies writhed, not screaming, I doubt they could scream, but they writhed. Was it agony? Could they feel? I watched…
Captian's Log Sink or Swim 1 Feb 202427 Jan 2024 "There's a chance we make it out alive," I said, staring up through the bars. The sun was rising, and a lone seagull squawked as it flew overhead. My heart…
Captian's Log The Old Men 30 Jan 202427 Jan 2024 One of the favorite grotesques of this forgotten people seems to have been the face of an old man. There are few variations beside something in the expression. Each one…
Captian's Log Magical Myrioramas: The Hollow Woods | First Drawing 29 Jan 202427 Jan 2024 What strange and mystic powers rest in the eye. There are words beyond words, stories bound up in a glance. A mystery of time that cannot be fathomed was the…
Captian's Log Court of the Pig Demon 24 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 The light was too great for him, and he blinded himself to the truth. The night was too long for him, and he decorated the darkness in dreams. The silence…
Captian's Log I Once Was Warm 23 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 Ploughing through the snow, I forced my shivering body forward, cursing the deep rut I leave in my wake. Not only would they follow me, but I was clearing the…
Captian's Log The Politician Never Dies 22 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 "I have been dead for three years," I began. Looking over the rotting faces of my audience, I swallowed. "I may not look it," I smiled, "but embalming has come…
Captian's Log Like Light 21 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 I hoped one day to be beyondthese little deaths of mine,to soar among the twinkling stars,never to fall, but shine. And yet the stars are like a dreamand death's alike…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 19 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 Of that great and fallen kingdom, no more history is recorded, for the earth has swallowed it up. Yet a popular song, whispered by those who remember and sung in…