Captian's Log To a Wasp 10 Apr 202631 Mar 2026 "These great men of yours," I asked, "were they ever children?" "Children?" "Did they ever dream or cry? Were they ever dirty? Were they ever exhausted at the end of…
Captian's Log The Alien 4 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 As I go through the old ritual of adjusting the mirrors, I cannot help but see my own face, twisted, bloated, colorless. Hardly human anymore. The contours are too smooth,…
Captian's Log The Alien 3 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 I hear the dancing music, and the voices of happy youth. I think, even, I can smell the sweat. Earth. It has been a long time. Standing under the eaves…
Captian's Log The Alien 2 Apr 202621 Mar 2026 Many surgeries since now and boyhood, good surgeries, and I can tell you the distance of that dog more accurately than radar. I can also tell you that it's coming…
Captian's Log The Experiment Was Over 13 Mar 20267 Mar 2026 The zombie stumbled out the door, tripping a little on the uneven threshold, and, righting itself, stopped and craned its head up toward the blue sky. The gray and lifeless…
Captian's Log The Captain 10 Mar 20267 Mar 2026 "Alright, somebody talk to me. What happened?" A veritable chorus erupted as everyone began talking over everyone else. My fault. That's on me. "Spencer!" I cut in. "Why aren't we…
Captian's Log Stitches 4 Mar 202628 Feb 2026 “Yes,” said Nightspore in a slow voice, without surprise. “But what is your name on Earth?” “It is pain.” “That, too, I must have known.” ~A Voyage to Arcturus There…
Captian's Log Ran Round Its Years 8 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 He gazed at me with that irresistible grin, and I felt my heart break. "It's time," I said, watching the darkness growing in his eyes. The glass touchscreen felt like…
Captian's Log At the Café 27 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 I watched the service droid's graceful movements. Dancing from table to table, it poured the coffee and refilled glasses in noiseless, almost ghostlike, intrusions so that the patrons, in their…
Captian's Log Remembrance 11 Jan 20263 Jan 2026 There shines a light in my darkness, a dream in the night, a calm in the maelstrom. Amid the harrowing nightmares that inhabit my ever failing mind, I found a…
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