Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: Lifted Up 19 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He hugged the little girl a little tighter and prayed to the God he hated and cursed, begging that distant tyrant to show some mercy, not for himself, not to…
Captian's Log Justice & Mercy: A Pause 18 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He might have stayed a long time, maybe forever, or maybe until the carcasses had rotted away, or until the bones had moldered and fallen into dust; more probably, until…
Captian's Log Justic & Mercy: Undone 17 Nov 202416 Nov 2024 He would not let her see the bloody things that were left, protecting her even from himself, from what he was, from seeing what he had done, so he told…
Captian's Log Sparks 15 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The king passed me in the night as the fuller's hammer kept a steady beat, like a heart or the ticking of a clock. He's out there now, making ready…
Captian's Log Sparks 14 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 You say the king is dead, but I say he walked by me in the night. Not in regalia but the softer hues of a faded smock. There, of that…
Captian's Log Sparks 13 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The hammer fell, a steady rain of blows, making a music in the night, and by the fuller’s station I did rest, contemplating heaven's stars. The stable’s smell had wafted…
Captian's Log Steering in the Night | Part II 13 Oct 202412 Oct 2024 The youth I cradled in my arms, held him against my breast,and took him from the sea to land, from war and unto rest.The tale he told me when he…
Captian's Log Steering in the Night | Part I 12 Oct 2024 How proud and tall the pale vampire stood upon the stern,and stern they were, his boring eyes; oh, how his glare did burn.The anger, not at me, I knew, but…
Captian's Log On the Hook 10 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 Agony overwhelms me, and I feel the world go dark. Beyond the pain and suffering, I leave my three tormentors to their fate, for I had seen in the darkness…
Captian's Log On the Hook 9 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 "You might feel so," I agree, "when they're yours." "Mark!" grunts Moneybags. "Yes, Mark," I say as the prod rises. "Stay here and you too can become a pile of…
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