Captian's Log Secret Shadows 12 Feb 2024 The thin, oily skins flipped easily from page to page. The texture was new to Tom. It was at once too smooth and too heavy. He was used to paper,…
Captian's Log Facing the Faceless 9 Feb 2024 It didn't hurt so much once the hope was gone. Free, I think, a type of freedom. I still find myself going through the motions now and again, but never…
Captian's Log Fallen Star 6 Feb 2024 A star burnt up the nightand spread this wicked blight.Its cloud smothered the skyand caused so much to die.And here, what hangs so still,these drifting flakes which fillthe air about…
Captian's Log Quiet in the Library 4 Feb 20243 Feb 2024 It is quiet in the library. I cannot hear a sound here except for the beating of my heart, the incessant whooshing of my lungs, and the thousand other burbling,…
Captian's Log I Am 2 Feb 2024 I sat, my eyes glued to the blaze. There the bodies writhed, not screaming, I doubt they could scream, but they writhed. Was it agony? Could they feel? I watched…
Captian's Log Sink or Swim 1 Feb 202427 Jan 2024 "There's a chance we make it out alive," I said, staring up through the bars. The sun was rising, and a lone seagull squawked as it flew overhead. My heart…
Captian's Log Why I’m Sealing Us in and Blowing up the Lab 27 Jan 2024 What is below must be destroyedbefore it leaves the void.That which returns must not escapeand take on a new shape.The thing was once destroyed by thought—we all as one forgot—but…
Captian's Log Court of the Pig Demon 24 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 The light was too great for him, and he blinded himself to the truth. The night was too long for him, and he decorated the darkness in dreams. The silence…
Captian's Log The Politician Never Dies 22 Jan 202420 Jan 2024 "I have been dead for three years," I began. Looking over the rotting faces of my audience, I swallowed. "I may not look it," I smiled, "but embalming has come…
Captian's Log The King’s Fall 19 Jan 202413 Jan 2024 Of that great and fallen kingdom, no more history is recorded, for the earth has swallowed it up. Yet a popular song, whispered by those who remember and sung in…