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 Fall 6 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 The mighty giant did not fall all at once once he was dead. Rampaging across the mountains, his feet wet with the blood of men and beasts, his heart was…
Captian's Log Home Again 23 Mar 202617 Mar 2026 For all of that, they could not die. The blood poured from the bone-deep gashes of the eviscerated and faceless corpses which hung and swayed overhead. The mutilated and shapeless…
Captian's Log Between Heaven and Earth 20 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 I don't know if anyone is ever ready to die. I know, you hear stories about saints and martyrs and whatnot. Surely they were. Maybe they were, but did they…
By an Idiot A Wink & the Truth 5 Mar 202628 Feb 2026 I was paid to smile, show my teeth for all to see, but though I walk a mile, your shoes won't fit for me. I was told to laugh—snort, guffaw,…
Captian's Log Sinister 28 Feb 202621 Feb 2026 The hiss of a viper, the smile of a friend,a firm handshake at the day's slow end.The desert is wide and grows cold quickbut like jackrabbit, I've got my own…
Captian's Log He Marches On 22 Feb 202614 Feb 2026 The wounded man leans against the red brick wall, his eyes wandering up the yellow beam of the streetlamp. The city has no sky; no stars or moon shine over…
Captian's Log Best to Pretend 13 Feb 20267 Feb 2026 Have you been dreaming? So softly, dreams come, visions broken in waking, shattered by a startling light. What violence the truth can bring. Best to close your eyes; keep them…
Captian's Log Ran Round Its Years 8 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 He gazed at me with that irresistible grin, and I felt my heart break. "It's time," I said, watching the darkness growing in his eyes. The glass touchscreen felt like…