Captian's Log God Bless Me 21 Jul 2018 I am afraid. I lie in bed petrified. I don’t want to get up, just sleep. I want to sleep forever. On my nightstand is yesterday’s mail. No, it’s older:…
Captian's Log Sonnet: New Life 9 Jul 2018 Please read: New Life excerpt: As like that tree humbly without Spring’s joy, without green leaf—no budding fruit is found—; as like that tree whose brittle limbs no boy should climb—a…
Captian's Log Poem: Death Stalked 22 Apr 2018 Here is something of an unfinished thought I've explored in troubled verse. Death, in his black outfit stalked me: Whispering softly a song, following all summer long, Th’specter tonight has…
Captian's Log E.R. 12 Feb 201812 Feb 2018 So, this post will be a bit offbeat as I write it from within an E. R. waiting room. Don't worry: I have no reason to believe this to be…
Captian's Log Sonnet: Darkest Hope 30 Jan 2018 Please read: Darkest Hope In darkness bound, he wanders solemnly, and seeks to find some rest and hope this night. Continue reading. . .
Captian's Log A Second Chance 27 Dec 201727 Dec 2017 One of my family’s favorite shows is Monk; the series follows an OCD suffering consulting detective, Adrian Monk, who lost his wife, Trudy, to a car bomb. Finding that balance…
Captian's Log Essay: Death of Hope 16 Dec 201716 Dec 2017 Please read: Death of Hope I think this has been one of the most personal things I have ever put up on my blog, and it took a long time to…
Captian's Log Dead Man’s Hope 30 Oct 2017 There is hope today, I tell myself as I lay paralyzed in bed. Every morning’s the same now, like a weight in my chest, right over my heart, pining me…
Captian's Log The Hollowed 31 Jul 2017 A zombie story I've been working on. I wanted to see how far I could go working primarily with the settings. Settings: The fields roll on endlessly, pockets of fog…
Captian's Log Over the Door 7 Jun 2017 The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a wonderfully dark and spooky tale. In the first two stanzas a theme develops pairing some knocking sound with the memory of the…
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