Captian's Log Rough Draft: Unnatural 25 Apr 2023 It is unnatural to lose a child, but nature goes on. John's nature, always to pull, to search, to unravel, led him down a very unnatural path. Seventeen children had…
Captian's Log Scapegoat 19 Mar 202319 Mar 2023 "That's twenty dead," came a voice into my ear. I turned around, thinking it was someone at the table next to me, but I had forgotten how early it was,…
Captian's Log Bleeding Out 10 Mar 2023 I'm bleeding. The warm streams of my life ran down the cold flesh of my useless arm. When the bullet exploded in my shoulder, the whole limb went numb. I…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Bleeding Out 8 Mar 2023 I'm bleeding. The warm streams of my life ran down the cold flesh of my useless arm. When the bullet exploded in my shoulder, the whole limb went numb. I…
Captian's Log Three and One 30 Jan 2023 (Author's note: I've been taking some melatonin to help me sleep the last few days. I have found that they have worked too well, and I have been exhausted and…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Disillusioned 16 Oct 202215 Oct 2022 "Death is the illusion we present when we can no longer live," the white bearded lector concluded. "A dream we share of dreamlessness. A dream of never waking." A scattered…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Brothers of Stone 22 Jun 2022 The grinning stone, with cobwebbed covered mouth, laughs silently.His carved brother under him he throttles violently.And thus from the same rock they came into reality,a Cain and Abel evermore wrought…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Cold Blood 22 Aug 2021 I'm brain dead, running on no sleep. Too tired, too frail. Here's a piece I've been working on: The old wizard lumbered around the counter, beckoning me with a wave…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: The Machine 5 Jul 2021 They called it the machine. It was a factory. Most of the men, coming onto four generations, were employed there, and those who weren't were at least employed by the…
By the Sword By the Sword: Rough Draft | Part 18 26 Jun 202125 Jun 2021 The five of them burst into the hidden room, a cacophony of complaining voices and confused limbs. John was once again the subject of David's ire as the latter blamed…