Captian's Log “No,” I Said 14 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 "But you could," she said, her face growing hard. "Could? 'Hey Brian,'" I said, talking into my hand like a phone. "'That chick that shouted at your wife in Target……
Captian's Log “No,” I Said 13 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 "What facts?" she asked. I shut my computer and sighed. Rubbing my forehead, I began, "Well, let's start with the fact that, after daydreaming up a fantasy between you and…
Captian's Log “No,” I Said 12 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 "No," I said. The cold and lengthy stare this earned was reward in and of itself. I smiled, trying to suppress the giddy laugh fighting to break out. "No," I…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part VI 30 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 This one didn't have the fog to hide in anymore, and I had something a bit better than a tire iron this time. Quickly undoing the flap on my pack,…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part V 29 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 As I crested a small rise in the road, I stood and inhaled a deep, long breath of that sharp, fresh air, letting my eyes survey the landscape's gradual unveiling.…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part IV 28 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 As the dew dispersed into the ethereal, the fog fading away into the unseen, the beauty of the countryside bore in upon me like an infection, and, inescapably, the weak…
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,…
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