Captian's Log Candlelight 15 Mar 2022 The match scraped against the box. For a moment, there was nothing, and then, a little flutter, a spark, and the tip of the match burst into flames. The sulfur…
Captian's Log A New Story 13 Mar 2022 We traveled through the night. Above, the stars shone like glimmering sparks, like a firework frozen in the dark soup of heaven. They felt like eyes as we stole away…
Captian's Log Pale Dancers Under a Pale Moon 12 Mar 202210 Mar 2022 When will the night end? That's what I've been asking myself. I sometimes ask myself if day ever existed, if it wasn't a dream of warmth and light and sun.…
Captian's Log A Clue 11 Mar 202210 Mar 2022 I had been sick. Sick enough to lose a month of my life. I barely woke up for two weeks, and the week after I was still a zombie. My…
Captian's Log Fill My Ears 7 Mar 2022 The rain was still falling. It was really just a mist now, but the loud drip-drop coming off the eaves and falling, splat, upon the porch, filled my ears like…
Captian's Log Old Man 6 Mar 2022 "A cold chill crept—isn't that a fun alliteration?—down my spine. They were everywhere. I was surrounded; nothing but my pistol and one shot left. I cocked my hammer and aimed…
Captian's Log In the Darkness 5 Mar 20225 Mar 2022 The dragon slithers amid his golden treasures, the thousands of glistening coins tinkling like little bells in the darkness. In the darkness, another sound, the ringing of steel; a sword…
Captian's Log The Slave’s Dream 3 Mar 2022 The pick struck the earth, and the sweat fell. Worn and tired and dying. Pick. Sweat. Sun. Hot sun. Pick. Hit the earth. Pick. Strike the earth. Dig. Deeper. Sun.…
Captian's Log Signs 1 Mar 2022 The old and ruined church, with peeling bell and calling knell, waits beside the graveyard. The dead do not listen. They say it is no more than wind which activates…
Captian's Log Signs 28 Feb 2022 There is a tombstone. Engraved in the stone are words I cannot read. On the carved cross a corvid sits. The grave is empty below. The corvid sits upon the…
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