Captian's Log Cassilda’s Song 18 Jan 202610 Jan 2026 "Song of my soul, my voice is dead," sings Cassilda, and I feel those words. So much time has been lost, weeks now, to this sickness. I cannot write, cannot…
Captian's Log Help in This Rest 17 Jan 202610 Jan 2026 I feel broken. My cough has returned. I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. I drink water, but I'm always thirsty. I'm either burning up or freezing; hungry, but can…
Captian's Log 2026: Beginning 1 Jan 202627 Dec 2025 Happy New Year! Well, it's time to make a resolution, I suppose. It's an easy one to make, not to keep, and it's in two parts. I want to spend…
Captian's Log 2025: The End 31 Dec 202527 Dec 2025 The final hours of the year, the last grains of sand falling through the hourglass, and I'll be sleeping soundly. I do not plan to stay up to greet 2026…
Captian's Log Christmas 2025 25 Dec 202524 Dec 2025 Merry Christmas, what a phrase, those magic words do heal. As though I walked within a daze—stark sanity—I kneel. Merry Christmas, Christ is born,the savior of my soul. And though…
Captian's Log Prayer in Pneumonia 20 Dec 202513 Dec 2025 There shines the first light of the nightOne bright spot in the pale blue skyI'll make a wish, if it's alrightLord help, I feel like I'm going to die. I'm…
Captian's Log God! 8 Dec 2025 God! Somedays my prayer is just that appeal. I have no words in my heart, only pain, and that pain can only be opened up in that one syllable. God!…
Captian's Log Hope and Dread 23 Nov 202522 Nov 2025 The fog has cleared away. The morning mists are lifted heavenward, and a clear, bright day has come. Yet still, my troubled mind its own fog carries, haunted by fears…
Captian's Log For Many Things, I Am Thankful Today 13 Nov 2025 Last night—no; late in the morning at the end of my dreams, half waking: You were there, again, alive, soft, and I was kissing you. I kissed you so many…
Captian's Log A Prayer 12 Nov 2025 I feel so empty in this place of fear, hollowed out, broken, worse for wear, and I'm on my knees, begging heaven. Let this pass, let this cup pass, and…
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