Captian's Log Moonstruck 30 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Gliding over the lake, the calm surface like a mirror, when the clouds parted and the full light of the moon shone down—as I was so silently escaping, my oars…
Captian's Log In the Wind 29 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Sometimes, I remember, and I want to weep. It hits me, harder than you know. But then again, I forget it so quickly and cannot account for these tears rolling…
Captian's Log Re-Cleansed 28 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 "But don't you see how all this would never have happened without that tragedy?" "You throw shit in my face, and when I have cleaned myself, say 'I have cleaned…
Captian's Log At the Café 27 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 I watched the service droid's graceful movements. Dancing from table to table, it poured the coffee and refilled glasses in noiseless, almost ghostlike, intrusions so that the patrons, in their…
Captian's Log Desert Rain 26 Jan 202624 Jan 2026 Water was in the air, the scent of falling rain. Something, something primordial, clicked inside of me. I hardly knew what I knew. I ran in the night, and my…
Captian's Log Dreaming Danger 24 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 So sang the harpist as he strummed so sang that merry imp. Unto the spell, quick to succumb, and that's why he must limp. Dream not in groves enchanted so,…
Captian's Log Mountain 23 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 How mighty is the mountain, how deep its shadow? How heavy is my heart. How broken I feel. If I have walked the tightrope, I have fallen. If I have…
Captian's Log Regrets 22 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 There was a moment, standing there, when the temptation was very strong. I don't know what the issue would have been, though I like to think, whomever Nike crowned, I'd…
Captian's Log There Was a Song 21 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 There was a song we sang, in the quiet and the dark, when our hope was—well, back then, it seemed the hope of fools—and we sang it in whispers so…
Captian's Log I Pray for the Rain 16 Jan 202610 Jan 2026 There is a silence in the noise; the proverbial calm within the storm's heart? They rage around me, talking over each other, promises, threats, meaningless posterings, and I am the…
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