Captian's Log Glad Gourd Glow 21 Oct 2024 The pumpkin smiles upon the doorstep, its face shining with an inner light. Orange gourd and guardian of the night, smile on, my friend, smile on. There are terrors that…
Captian's Log Final Prayer 15 Oct 2024 O happy ghosts adancing by my headand spectered merrymakers all around,almost I forget I'm deadwith smiling faces all around. The skeletons play music wellas you all drag me down to…
Captian's Log Mercy 12 Aug 202410 Aug 2024 At times I wonder if we run more from Justice or Mercy. Mercy seems the more terrible at times, the threat of forgiveness hotter than the fires of Hell, for…
Captian's Log Re: Crescent Lake 1 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Dear Inquirer, There are chapters in one's life best edited out of a public biography, or at least greatly abridged. My time, my dark period, as you are calling it,…
Captian's Log Hearts Sing 22 Jun 202415 Jun 2024 There is a silent sort of screamwhen things aren't what they seem. There is a hell no one can knowthat follows where you go.A fire burns your inner soul—you never…
Captian's Log Its End Is Nothing 18 Jun 202415 Jun 2024 What we have, when they have beaten us, when they have torn our skin away, gouged out our eyes, burned our minds in their infernal machines, taken from us all…
Captian's Log Clean Up 9 Jun 20247 Jun 2024 Seeping through the plaster, slow as an army of slugs, the bloody ooze crawled. So, there was another portal, I thought. A good hiding place, behind the wall. Who would…
Captian's Log Choice of Lo 3 Jun 20241 Jun 2024 …and then the child was dead. Her mother said it would be easy. Mother was always right; even when she wasn't, it was Lo's job to make her right. So,…
Captian's Log Meditation on Passivity 30 May 202428 May 2024 I was thinking about passivity the other day in my prayers, and it seemed to me that there were two ways in which one might be passive. There is a…
Captian's Log Shadowed Fetters 29 May 202425 May 2024 Bound in shadowed fetters and hurtling through a starless darkness, a tossing, turning storm without light, I wonder how, amid all the chaos, nothing good ever just happens. You would…