Captian's Log Love Letter 15 Jul 2025 We danced through the stars, a dance of death, perhaps, but truly in a passion indistinguishable from love. We have been trying to kill each other for ten years. For…
Captian's Log My Plan Has Changed 12 Jul 202511 Jul 2025 What's done is done, what's true is true, and what I've done, I've done for you. The time is now, and I must go;my part's played out within life's show.…
Captian's Log On Two Kinds of Death 2 Jul 2025 The staccato scratch of the silent sweeper's bouncing broom—I was watching the man as he worked, pushing the eclectic debris into a pile—was like music. A soft sound, one of…
Captian's Log Come Let 22 Jun 202520 Jun 2025 Come away and sing with me, my love, come whisper now, our song.Come hide away, my little dove.To hold you near I long. Come and make your nest of peace…
Captian's Log A Second Chance to Love 20 Jun 2025 A second chance, a fearful thing, to fail a second time. To pluck out a mǎlodious twang,to flunk another rhyme. And yet I strum and hum and sing, accepting what…
Captian's Log A Sound, a Fright, a Ghost 8 Jun 20257 Jun 2025 We walk together, at times, but still, I walk alone, a shadow in the night. We passed a lifeless stone made like life, like a dead man who rots within…
Captian's Log Some Doggerel Lines | Meditations On Lewis’s The Four Loves 31 May 2025 So silent moves the knife of a faithful friend;the lover's poisoned drops will not amend.The father's gifts become a contract's bind;of shackles does the mother's love remind. All loves are…
Captian's Log I Said “No” 18 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 When she was finally gone, I gave way to the laughter. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I clutched my sides. Still gasping for breath, I picked up my phone…
Captian's Log I Said “No” 17 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 She stood, her jaw thrust out in a deep frown. "Ice cream, sappy movie, cry," I said. "You'll feel worlds better after a good cry. Then, when you're feeling better,…
Captian's Log I Said “No” 16 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 "Then help me," she begged. "Over the last four years, I've helped you kill at least five people. That has to mean something. Leave this man alone. Get a tub…
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