Captian's Log Layover 28 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 Meditating to the sizzling fryer and the waitress' and cook's banter, I smiled. Here was as good a place as any to die, maybe to live. Somewhere in between, I…
Captian's Log Layover 26 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 As my eyes rolled over the simple meals offered, my mouth let out: "Forget it all." It was more of a mumble than anything, but she heard. She cocked her…
Captian's Log Layover 24 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 Coughing, growling, I cleared my throat. "Water," I begged in a whisper. A pleasant stream of pleasantries poured from the waitress as I sat upon a stool and as she…
Captian's Log Layover 22 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 As I walked over the black pavement, I felt the heat double. The sun above, cooking me and the road, the road below, hot as a frying pan, and I…
Captian's Log Layover 20 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 The dusty road went on into the desolate plain, tapering until it fell out of sight in the far haze of heat which separated the clear, blue sky from the…
Captian's Log Layover 18 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 There is a melancholy air in the noises a bus makes when it parks: a hissing; then the engine dies. You step out of this monster you've been riding in,…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 16 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Yet, of the pagan gods, some voices said that they were demons dragging souls to Hell. Not all immortalities are equal; an indefatigable fire for the infamous, an endless suffering…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 15 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 My eyes met the skull's eyeless sockets, the shadowed holes reminding me—almost, I could hear a voice putting it into words—that I too would die, might lie as he, my…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 14 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Too well known for anyone to bother making a copy, too tired a point to need repeating, and so it was forgotten. A paradox, but such is life, a walk…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 13 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Yet, if history was silent on its origin, it did whisper, a long, hoarse whisper through the centuries, carried on under the cries of war and famine and death, the…
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