Captian's Log Duel 30 Mar 2022 "You're dying," she realized aloud. "We're all dying," I said. "I'm just better at it." That terrible look of pity crossed her eyes. "Don't look at me like that," I…
Captian's Log Tower Past 29 Mar 2022 The old tower seemed to have just grown there; it was more like a giant, weathered stump than a castle. I suspect, if we could dig into the bare rock…
Captian's Log Twilit Carousel 27 Mar 2022 The twilit carousel turns and returns in ever slowing cycles. The ride is over and done—almost done—and we must get off. Inertia, that's all that keeps us spinning. Round and…
Captian's Log Magic 26 Mar 2022 They had killed magic. You could feel it, an entire planet without a soul. Even a city has a soul. They had killed magic. Here, the sun didn't rise, a…
Captian's Log Death and Chess 22 Mar 2022 "Bah!" grunted Death. "You win." I gazed down at the chessboard. "I thought that was impossible," I said. Death stood, glaring at me. "Then why'd you challenge me to a…
Captian's Log The Church 20 Mar 202219 Mar 2022 And I awoke from that dream, as the church bells rang, and stretched in that cold pew. And I saw that the church walls rose up around me as walls…
Captian's Log The Church 19 Mar 2022 Yet I had to follow; softly, aiming always toward the sound. Ever present, the grinning gargoyles watched, vomiting out frothing streams which seemed to fall, some downward and some upward,…
Captian's Log The Church 18 Mar 2022 In that silence, the pounding of my heart was like a war drum. I feared, even in that dreadful loneliness, lest someone should overhear it. I feared the bells. They…
Captian's Log The Church 17 Mar 2022 When the bells began ringing, I remember, it sent a shiver up my spine. This strange, gothic world of escheresque cathedrals—you were never in or out of a building, for…
Captian's Log A Dead Guy Walks Into a Bar 16 Mar 202216 Mar 2022 "So, a dead guy walks into a bar—" "How?" my friend asks. "On his feet." "Yeah, but how? Like, he's dead. If he's a vampire, he can't, right? If he's…
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