Captian's Log Layover 28 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 Meditating to the sizzling fryer and the waitress' and cook's banter, I smiled. Here was as good a place as any to die, maybe to live. Somewhere in between, I…
Captian's Log The Jackdaw 27 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 The jackdaw paced through the grass, keeping an eye on the strangers and the bright and flashing sticks they held. There was something mesmerizing in the way the steel glinted…
Captian's Log Layover 26 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 As my eyes rolled over the simple meals offered, my mouth let out: "Forget it all." It was more of a mumble than anything, but she heard. She cocked her…
Captian's Log Winter’s Murder 25 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 How hungry winter left them. They had feasted mightily before the snow. During the battle, the streams had run red, and the corpses had burst in the autumnal sun. Now…
Captian's Log Layover 24 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 Coughing, growling, I cleared my throat. "Water," I begged in a whisper. A pleasant stream of pleasantries poured from the waitress as I sat upon a stool and as she…
Captian's Log Layover 22 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 As I walked over the black pavement, I felt the heat double. The sun above, cooking me and the road, the road below, hot as a frying pan, and I…
Captian's Log Twilights 21 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 The sleeper, the dreamer, the dead.The keeper, collector of heads.The wisher, deceiver, has fledand I will whisper what's said: For the stars will return in the night,and the skulls which…
Captian's Log Layover 20 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 The dusty road went on into the desolate plain, tapering until it fell out of sight in the far haze of heat which separated the clear, blue sky from the…
Captian's Log Layover 18 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 There is a melancholy air in the noises a bus makes when it parks: a hissing; then the engine dies. You step out of this monster you've been riding in,…
Captian's Log A Place of Spirits 17 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 It is a place of spirits, of goblins and ghosts, and of sorrow. Like a dampness, you can taste the air and know that somewhere, somewhere near is…an epicenter. You've…
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