Captian's Log Happy Ninth Birthday, Tale Told 15 Apr 202620 Mar 2026 Please enjoy a few posts from this past year. https://tale-told.com/2025/04/01/dancing-with-death/ https://tale-told.com/2025/05/02/interruptions/ https://tale-told.com/2025/06/13/i-think-so-brain-but-if-we-covered-ourselves-in-sackcloth-and-ashes/ https://tale-told.com/2025/07/03/a-postscript/ https://tale-told.com/2025/08/25/a-smile-breaks-across-the-dead-mans-face/ https://tale-told.com/2025/09/18/absalom-absalom/ https://tale-told.com/2025/10/18/out-of-breath/ https://tale-told.com/2025/11/13/for-many-things-i-am-thankful-today/ https://tale-told.com/2025/12/26/if-its-true/ https://tale-told.com/2026/01/13/conversations-with-myself/ https://tale-told.com/2026/02/14/love-nest-and-zombies/ https://tale-told.com/2026/03/20/between-heaven-and-earth/
Captian's Log Rough Draft | An Unfinished Beginning: The Hanged Man 8 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 A Note: A few different influences working here, the most striking was thinking I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a metal sculpture of a man hanging from…
Captian's Log The Next Step 7 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 Through the fog, only a shadow of the next step appears. As I set my foot down, I feel the solid stone-laid path against my sole. There is music, somewhere,…
Captian's Log A Review? An Interview? 1 Apr 2026 I'm excited to announce that While the Elephants Danced has been featured on a website called Ginger Nuts of Horror. I emailed them asking if they'd review my book, and…
Captian's Log Beyond 24 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 Written the morning before returning to work after being sick: Beyond the fever, beyond the dream,beyond death's cold and bitter gleam,beyond the shadows, beyond the night,beyond all this, I see…
Captian's Log Tea 21 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 Home sick on a beautiful day. I want to run and leap in the sun, it's been raining so long, but I can't breathe. A pot of tea, I try…
Captian's Log Life Update: Down the Amazon 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 So, my father is not the most tech savvy man in the world, which is a shame. He once was fairly competent re: computers back when floppy disks were a…
Captian's Log Happy St. Patrick’s Day (A Haiku) 17 Mar 2026 Saint Patrick's Day, but—evergreens black under fog—cold so slowly lifts I have caught a cold going around at work. Feeling a little better every day. Read an article on Substack…
Captian's Log It’s Called, I Do a Little Rambling 23 Feb 202617 Feb 2026 It seems to me there is an opposite version of the euphemism treadmill. Before I was born, my father worked with special needs adults, except, back then, the term special…
Captian's Log Getting Worse 21 Feb 202614 Feb 2026 Is it trauma when everyone is traumatized? I have been trying to understand The Turn of the Screw. Was it technically good? Yes. Frightening? Somewhat. But, I ask myself, what…
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