Captian's Log Tonight 24 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 Tonight, we are alone. Tonight, amid all the noise, we find something like silence, the sound of beatings hearts, soft and quiet, overwhelms all the music and chaos. Your eyes,…
Captian's Log Lullaby 18 Apr 202611 Apr 2026 A voice calls over the sinking pits and treacherous calm of the marsh. Some little bird sings, I think, and for the distance and the rushes and the reeds, and…
Captian's Log The Next Step 7 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 Through the fog, only a shadow of the next step appears. As I set my foot down, I feel the solid stone-laid path against my sole. There is music, somewhere,…
Captian's Log In the Wind 29 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Sometimes, I remember, and I want to weep. It hits me, harder than you know. But then again, I forget it so quickly and cannot account for these tears rolling…
Captian's Log Dreaming Danger 24 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 So sang the harpist as he strummed so sang that merry imp. Unto the spell, quick to succumb, and that's why he must limp. Dream not in groves enchanted so,…
Captian's Log There Was a Song 21 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 There was a song we sang, in the quiet and the dark, when our hope was—well, back then, it seemed the hope of fools—and we sang it in whispers so…
Captian's Log Free to Dance 30 Dec 202527 Dec 2025 Smile with me, dream with me, and dance the dance of death. Round and round, let's go, caught in each others' arms. The music is alive, though the ground is…
Captian's Log Finished Phantastes 19 Dec 202513 Dec 2025 I recently finished reading, after a very long hiatus, Phantastes by George Macdonald. It was not, for my tastes, the best. The long break corresponded to the point where I…
Captian's Log Out of Breath 18 Oct 202514 Oct 2025 Perhaps, the banner was a bit too much, I wonder as she screams and runs away. "Congratulations," it reads in bright red letters, "You're Dead!" I often forget how hard…
Captian's Log Dance with the Dead 14 Oct 2025 Let them come, I thought, and sighing, continued sharpening the edge of my sword. My eyes fell upon my work once again and the repetitive movement of the steel sliding…
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