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 Cinder’s Nest 25 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 Sweet are the faces smiling now, sweet in their blind rapture. Sweet are the nods, and sweet their squinting eyes, approval for all that they despise. I will destroy, I…
Captian's Log Beyond 24 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 Written the morning before returning to work after being sick: Beyond the fever, beyond the dream,beyond death's cold and bitter gleam,beyond the shadows, beyond the night,beyond all this, I see…
Captian's Log Left or Right 22 Mar 202617 Mar 2026 Smiling Satan offers two handsa sin to the right, or a sin to the left.How little man understandswhen of the good he's bereft.Set your eye on the gooda star for…
Captian's Log Life Update: Down the Amazon 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 So, my father is not the most tech savvy man in the world, which is a shame. He once was fairly competent re: computers back when floppy disks were a…
Captian's Log Happy St. Patrick’s Day (A Haiku) 17 Mar 2026 Saint Patrick's Day, but—evergreens black under fog—cold so slowly lifts I have caught a cold going around at work. Feeling a little better every day. Read an article on Substack…
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 My Breast Your Grave 12 Feb 20267 Feb 2026 I try to find out where I broke my heart, which blow it was that did me in, but no pain or grief has slain my soul— I dwell upon…
Captian's Log When I Shatter 11 Feb 20267 Feb 2026 Too easy to love and too easy to hate,too easy to become what you just can't take. All of these hungers that I just can't sateand I fear every moment…