Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part III 27 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 Shifting the backpack's straps a little, searching for some relief, I grunted. I had taken only the essentials, but the weight still dug into my shoulders. The cold and dewy…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part II 26 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 As I surveyed the occluded landscape of fallow fields, my eyes passed over the shadowy outlines of a few barren, winter robbed trees and here and there, rows of leafless…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part I 25 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 The corpse lies still upon the earth, the crater in its head a sure sign it won't get up again. I stand panting in the cold morning, my breath, coming…
Captian's Log The Genteel Way 21 Mar 202515 Mar 2025 I need an offramp, a way out. I need this mission, this chance; let me go. You can keep shoving the square peg into the round hole all you like,…
Captian's Log The Genteel Way 20 Mar 202515 Mar 2025 I'm not an idealist, I don't know if I believe in anything, but I want to keep my soul. If I stay here any longer, watching these twerps get pushed…
Captian's Log The Genteel Way 19 Mar 202515 Mar 2025 It has always been, "Next time," for me, and I fear that, if the pattern continues, it will never be this time. I'll run my course just standing in a…
Captian's Log Falling Apart | Part V 1 Mar 202520 Feb 2025 I remember the falling, and before that the terrible cry of madness, of a mind breaking, but somehow, I remember him above me, flying up higher and higher, speeding away…
Captian's Log Falling Apart | Part IV 28 Feb 202520 Feb 2025 I had pretended peace, real peace with my enemy, imploring him to remember our old friendship: "Let us hike, let us remember where we used to sneak off after school."…
Captian's Log Falling Apart | Part III 27 Feb 202520 Feb 2025 It was all meant to be, and as my mind wanders over the soggy fields to the place of my triumph—oh blessed darkness. In my mind, lost in thought, dreaming…
Captian's Log Falling Apart | Part II 26 Feb 202520 Feb 2025 Yes, the rain is my companion, my accomplice, diligently erasing all evidence of my sin. Perhaps the rain even intends to bury him for me in a mudslide. Heaven must…