Captian's Log Black & White 4 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 I'm usually a fan of the David Suchet Poirot. However, I think there is something missing or wrong about the tone of his version of "Murder on the Orient Express."…
Captian's Log They Call Home 3 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 Standing alone as the night comes on, listening to the sounds of the sea and shore, I do not yet want to turn back toward the hotel. Sitting, therefore, on…
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…
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