Captian's Log Demons in the Code 14 Nov 2022 After seven days, the computer rebooted in the cold isolation of space. Systems back online. Communications down. Life-support…offline. The oxygen readings were at 0%. The internal thermometers had bottomed out.…
Captian's Log Into the Sun 4 May 2022 The silent heartbreak of our generation, hidden behind clay masks, fake identities which dry out and crumble to dust under the sun—that is why we live in the night. The…
Captian's Log Alient 10 Apr 2022 You kind of wanted it to be bigger, like something from the movies. I wasn't particular; I would have been happy with either Mars Attacks! or Close Encounters of the…
Captian's Log Magic 26 Mar 2022 They had killed magic. You could feel it, an entire planet without a soul. Even a city has a soul. They had killed magic. Here, the sun didn't rise, a…
Captian's Log Turn of the Year 3 Jan 2022 I don't have a head for statistics, so I Googled it: four. Give or take, every second, four babies are born. Four miracles. Four worlds created. So, the very second…
Captian's Log Short: Unfinished 26 Oct 2021 The unfinished thing lay in the corner, a heap of disjointed parts. An android, of sorts. I never knew what it was for, but it was human, in a sense.…
Captian's Log From the Archives: On Characterization 13 Oct 2021 Originally posted on https://thestoryclub.locals.com/ One of my favorite moments of characterization comes from Doctor Who, a story arc titled, The Green Death. In the final scene, once all the weird…
Captian's Log Short Story: We’ll Get Home 8 Sep 2021 The Solid Matter Energy Converter rumbled. Peri didn't know what a Solid Matter whatsit was, but he didn't like it when it rumbled. It was rumbling. Rumblings always meant, inevitably…
Captian's Log Drabble: Cold, Ancient, Dead 14 Aug 2021 Cold, ancient, dead. The planet lay below, a lifeless sphere. Crumbling ruins stood like mountains in the vast, frozen deserts; falling cities, like thick forests, held their echoed secrets within.…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Light 21 Jul 2021 We sought the light through the vast epochs of time, wandering through millennia and millennia. We passed ages unrecorded and unknown, eras of wilderness and untamed growth, and long worn…
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