Captian's Log 5:30 to 6:00 13 Apr 202213 Apr 2022 The minute hand is on the six, there's another half hour to the hour, and the cat is on my lap, and the document is blank, and the sun is…
Captian's Log On the Need for Horror 31 Mar 2022 Why are my favorite "horror" movies really just comedies? What's wrong with me? In other news, I've been sick. I think it's allergies, but they're killer this year. I've been…
Captian's Log Death and Chess 22 Mar 2022 "Bah!" grunted Death. "You win." I gazed down at the chessboard. "I thought that was impossible," I said. Death stood, glaring at me. "Then why'd you challenge me to a…
Captian's Log Candlelight 15 Mar 2022 The match scraped against the box. For a moment, there was nothing, and then, a little flutter, a spark, and the tip of the match burst into flames. The sulfur…
Captian's Log A Clue 11 Mar 202210 Mar 2022 I had been sick. Sick enough to lose a month of my life. I barely woke up for two weeks, and the week after I was still a zombie. My…
Captian's Log A Clue 10 Mar 2022 There is a humorous element to pride, that we often feel prideful of just how very humble we really are. It is a sort of catch-22, that is, pride puts…
Captian's Log Signs 28 Feb 2022 There is a tombstone. Engraved in the stone are words I cannot read. On the carved cross a corvid sits. The grave is empty below. The corvid sits upon the…
Captian's Log Signs 27 Feb 2022 Wild, the wind was blowing, and dark the sky it grew; Wild, the wind was racing, and dark the signs above. Strange, abhorrent things were born beneath weird, flashing lights.…
Captian's Log Castaway 24 Feb 2022 Frightened, freezing, half-dead, the tide dragged my limp body onto the sandy shore, leaving me like so much driftwood there upon that desert island. The wind was chill and cold,…