Captian's Log Face to Face 7 Jan 2025 Torn from gentle dreams and animal desires, staring open mouthed, the beast admiresoverhead, the hanging portrait:O what horrid fate!Himself there.Beware:Bygone gloriesmade mere memories.Man no longer man what art?Thou but residue,…
Captian's Log Amazed 6 Jan 2025 The slaughter was amazing. That seemed a bathetic descriptor, but amazing it was. The hapless carnage, leaving no escape into ignorance, no matter how willful, buggered the mind. You simply…
Captian's Log Sleeping Memories 3 Jan 202531 Dec 2024 "The nameless one," I said, "Does not remember his dreams. He thinks, though, that they are memories, or may be memories, of what he lost. That's why he likes to…
Captian's Log One With the Storm 30 Dec 2024 Stupid. That's all I can think. Stupid. Swallowing my anger, I close my eyes and try to breathe a moment. In the distance, I can hear the religious chanting from…
Captian's Log The Graverobber 29 Dec 202428 Dec 2024 The graverobber leaned on his shovel and sighed. His breath went forth as a white cloud that December morning, and it seemed all the weariness of his scoured soul was…
Captian's Log The Thieves’ Bazar 28 Dec 2024 A shrouded figure rode through the thieves' bazaar, the drooping tassels of his grey covering the same dark shade of his charcoal steed. His shadow moved through the lamplight, passing…
Captian's Log Run 27 Dec 2024 On the third day of my journey, I saw one. There are few pathways in those woods, and I had to climb over a knobby mound of raised roots where…
Captian's Log A Dream of Mine I Fear 26 Dec 2024 I sat beside a mighty stonewhere little moss had grownand in its shadow felt a chillthat haunts me this day stillFor I had stopped to picnic thereand breathe the open…
Captian's Log In the Dear Dark 23 Dec 2024 The tiger coils in the dark,his eyes are emerald flames.In lightless seas there swims the shark;his hunger no soul tames.The watchful owl waits in the night,no mercy in its glare.In…
Captian's Log The Treasure of Drough 13 Dec 2024 Beneath the silent sea of Drough, a hidden treasure lies,and in the bleak murk of its bed, each treasure hunter dies. I sailed the darkness of the sea and heard…