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,…
Captian's Log Recovery? 5 Feb 20225 Feb 2022 Not feeling great tonight. In fact, I've been feeling terrible since my asthma attack last week. I'm on some steroid now, and I can barely sleep. I lie in bed…
Captian's Log Home? 3 Feb 2022 There is more hipster about me than I'm comfortable with. I remember when I was much younger, hearing the term for the first time, and asking innocently what was meant…