Captian's Log To Carcosa 20 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 Where goes the man, so weak and frail, Whose back is bent, whose beard is long? Where go the old? Where does he sail? Does he yet speak or sing…
Captian's Log An Unknown Inflection 3 Mar 2023 It was hard to say when, exactly, he had forgotten who he was. Somewhere between the here and now and that fateful day in which he had first desperately invented…
Captian's Log Rise of the Masked Queen 27 Jan 2023 A deadly pall hung about the celebrants. Though they circled the dance floor in perfect step, not a murmur or whisper could be heard; only the droning music played. Upon…
Captian's Log Masquerade | Leaving Only the Mask 18 Dec 202217 Dec 2022 There is a danger in being unpretentious because it is not always a synonym of honest or unconscious; indeed, I fear that unpretentious is often a synonym to pretentious. Neither…
Captian's Log Palid Mask 1 Dec 20221 Dec 2022 I wear a pallid mask because I have no face, and since you're bound to ask, I'm not from any place save from the darkness of your mind; I'm here…
Captian's Log Halloween Memory 24 Jul 2022 The paper mask hangs there on the wall, a memory. I cannot take it down. It rests between the stars, beside the waxing moon. I sometimes think of her. I…
Captian's Log Death of the Masked Queen 10 Aug 2021 A spiderweb of fissures spread across her porcelain mask. Her shadowed eyes stared out at me as though about to ask the reason I had cast my deadly bolt into…
Captian's Log Tricks and Treats 6 Aug 20216 Aug 2021 "Trick or treat!" the children yell as I open the door. Smiling under my mask, I lower the bowl to their greedy hands. A ghost, a witch, a vampire, classics.…
Captian's Log Poem: Masquerade 3 Jul 20212 Jul 2021 My face hid under porcelain skin Anew behind a painted grin Smiles are all about me now Questions of who and what and how Until the final hour's spent Each…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Grotesque 16 Mar 2021 He counts, whispering to himself, "One . . . two . . . three . . . one . . . two . . . three . . . "…
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