Captian's Log Sighs in Babylon 18 Nov 2023 "There's always a horribly foreign element in everything you say; imperial, even," I sighed. "Even if I thought your meandering prevarications could somehow hold together long enough to constitute an…
Captian's Log Death’s Lies 17 Nov 2023 The soft, inviting slumber of the dead, the comfort found when buried underground— all lies. Nothing is true in what she said. And now I lie forlorn in death's dark…
Captian's Log All the Truth 1 Nov 2023 "The trouble is," he sneered, "that no one really cares. It's not their lives, or their homes. Ours is just a story for them to have a brief catharsis over.…
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 Secrets 26 May 202323 May 2023 "They lied when they told you that," I sigh, "but not because it's not true." "What do you mean, 'Not because it's not true'?" he demands. "If you saw me…
Captian's Log Thoughts on the Nature of Truth 24 May 202322 May 2023 Please Read: In Defense of Ignorance https://taletold.wordpress.com/recollection/in-defense-of-ignorance/
Captian's Log And Sisyphus Shall Lead Them 29 Apr 2023 It humors me that I once saw a comic likening the struggle of feminists to Sisyphus, where a fat, CEO type man kicked the laboring woman's boulder down the hill…
Captian's Log Now Listen to This Carefully, Norman 28 Apr 2023 It comes to me that there is a difference between "This statement is a lie" and "This statement is false" merely for the fact that a lie can be true.…
Captian's Log Second Chance 24 Oct 2022 You want to run away and hide, conceal yourself by some disguise, before they find out you have lied, before they open up their eyes. I think perhaps you'd be…
Captian's Log Short: Project Snowball 28 Nov 2021 "You lied," I said. The old man in the suit said nothing. "This whole time, you've been lying. You covered it all up, didn't you?" The suit got out of…
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