Captian's Log The Traveler Between 20 Jun 202415 Jun 2024 They are below, buried deep below, and no hand can lift them up. What darkness there, what eternal shadow, reigns—but he, he is not what I've come to speak of.…
Captian's Log Undeath 16 Sep 20239 Sep 2023 The horrible thing about a dead body is that it's dead. All the things, the accidents, the smell, the stiffening, the decay, are all symbols of one unendurable fact: a…
Captian's Log Pan 22 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 I saw him once, on a little, river island. I was sitting on the bank with a line in, dreaming, staring at the sky. I felt—it's hard to explain—I heard…
Captian's Log And Sisyphus Shall Lead Them 29 Apr 2023 It humors me that I once saw a comic likening the struggle of feminists to Sisyphus, where a fat, CEO type man kicked the laboring woman's boulder down the hill…
Captian's Log Phoenix 17 Dec 2022 I let the fire engulf me in its billowing flames, baptizing me as it burned away my pain. Brilliant blaze, I was a torch, a bright pillar—like an angel from…
Captian's Log 2021: The End 31 Dec 202131 Dec 2021 As the year ends and I glance over the triumphs and failures of this last cycle, I wonder how to correlate it. I see victories and defeats, but ask, overall,…
Captian's Log Musings on the Evergreens 30 Dec 2021 The snow has mostly melted off the evergreen sentinels surrounding my house, and the temperature might get up to a blistering 40° F outside. (F, of course, stands for Freedom,…
Captian's Log Short: Janus and the Sword 1 Dec 2021 "Don't forget that Janus is double faced," I shouted after him. He stopped, closed the door, and turned back to face me. "What?" he asked. "The god of beginnings, the…
Captian's Log Werewolf | The Transformation 13 Apr 2021 The sacrificial flames licked the cool night air with blasphemous tongues. The charred body ceased writhing a few moments after the victim's screams ended. At first, he begged for his…
Captian's Log Reflection: Troubled Thoughts 13 Dec 2020 Please Read: Troubled Thoughts Excerpt: There is a tragic nature to Christianity that few non-Christians understand, and even among Christians, I do not always see an awareness of it: Though…