Captian's Log Prometheus Sighed 26 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 How weary his face was in the firelight. The sagging skin under his eyes cast strange shadows over those spheres. From that darkness, he watched man, wary and careful, crawl…
Captian's Log The Fire in the Dark 5 Aug 2023 The days are growing darker, the nights are growing warm the trees are struck by thunder they fall under the storm The wind is whipping faster and stirring up the…
Captian's Log Cinder King 4 Aug 202329 Jul 2023 They say fire burnt the king in the court. In the court, when the flames crept high, like a pillar, like a column, reaching up, reaching up and climbing the…
Captian's Log Dust, Ashes, and Ghosts 25 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 "The house burned down seven years ago," he said slowly. His eyes searched my face. "The children, well, they used to keep the rooms locked because the children kept sneaking…
Captian's Log Hell to Pay 21 Jun 202310 Jun 2023 It's like a fire in my head: one cannot fight all that is said. The truth, once stated, there it ends, but lies go on after truth mends. At some…
Captian's Log To See Hell 12 May 2023 Some crawled out of the flames. I sat on the roof of the old Subaru gazing into the inferno. As the sky darkened with night, the fire seemed only to…
Captian's Log The Three Patients 2 May 202330 Apr 2023 Then there is the burnt one. He has been on hospice now for seven years. His charred, blackened corpse should not continue, but it does. His screams fill the night,…
Captian's Log Called From Nothing 21 Mar 2023 The weather had taken a nasty turn, and this suited him well. Above, billowing grey clouds rumbled in despairing groans; here and there, claps of thunder followed the bright flashes,…
Captian's Log Hidden Answers 3 Feb 2023 "You want an answer that I just can't give you." The hollow voice came from the mummy's chest, the corpse's inner glow, escaping through its eyes and sundry small cracks…
Captian's Log Phoenix 17 Dec 2022 I let the fire engulf me in its billowing flames, baptizing me as it burned away my pain. Brilliant blaze, I was a torch, a bright pillar—like an angel from…
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