Captian's Log Eulogy: Peace 22 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 I had hoped we'd meet again, Monsignor. A crime, you rob me of true triumph. What is victory without your impassioned speeches condemning me as a tyrant and your prognostications…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 17 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 You make me shiver. It is as though you have peered into my thoughts, for I saw the gods, gods of Egypt and Greece and the monsters of far distant…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 16 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 The punishment of the dead is his main theme here. He thinks they thought that justice compelled them to take almost the opposite position of the ancient Egyptians. Only the…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 15 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 "…be it not forgotten, then, that the best authorities," whom he never cites, "hold that the buried figures of their gods support the thesis that some sort of chthonic cult…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 What are dreams? I am no child. Dreams come and go. I do not hold onto them. But I too have been robbed of sleep this night and hoped for…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 13 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Strange dreams have assaulted me this night. I fought with beasts of darkness and thunder whose evil laughter haunts me now. Their unseen faces hid some knowing smirk. I fended…
Captian's Log Mercy & Justice: Hero 23 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 Day followed day, year followed year, and legends morphed and grew. Some say he was killed, and others that he was a fantasy, a sort of constellation drawn from the…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Appeal to Heaven 22 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 Beside him, her angel touched his arm, and he knew a peace that he, the person he had made himself, the character he'd created and lost himself to, had never…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Dark Night of the Soul 21 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 The ugly commanded the good, and the wolf hunt began. By the end of the year, he was cornered. Hungry, shivering, unshaven. His long and careful plans, his friends, his…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: A Prayer 20 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 The morning came, and all the city learned, the good, the bad, and the ugly, what their shadowy legend, their Dark Defender, had done in the night. The good could…
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