Captian's Log Crystalman’s Mask 8 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 We stand in silent wonder, dreaming dreams we can't forget, all while the dragon passes o're dressed in grey and clouded mist. I think I am myself tonight, and so…
Captian's Log Zombie Drabble in the Woods 6 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 The zombie stumbled over the knotted deer trail. Falling, his ankle caught in the tangles of a long root, the monster lets out a cry—Was that fear? Pain?—and smashes its…
Captian's Log Quarry 5 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 I walked down the slope of an old quarry. It has long been abandoned, and the hole left, the shear cliff faces, the gradual pitch downward, and the silence of…
Captian's Log Candid 3 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Candid, moments shared between us, one of those uncounted transitions between events, something about getting in a car, passing through a doorway, walking down a hallway, these things don't really…
Captian's Log When Winter Ends 2 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 We filed through the snow, the winter air making each of us our own steam engine, our breaths rising in little, fading clouds over our heads. A train with only…
Captian's Log Re: Crescent Lake 1 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Dear Inquirer, There are chapters in one's life best edited out of a public biography, or at least greatly abridged. My time, my dark period, as you are calling it,…
Captian's Log Undeath’s End 27 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 The ghoulish figure sat, grinning his lipless smile with a vacant stare, upon a stony bench under the flowering cherry whose dark trunk and branches held high the heartrendingly beautiful…
Captian's Log A Killer’s Dying 26 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 A killer's dying, clutching lead filled guts,but these tears I'm crying—this scene my heart cuts— He was a man who had no home,but he would fight for ours.No more will…
Captian's Log A Hole in History 25 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 A deader man than he, whose dust has long been scattered across a million stars, who has no dead monument nor living memory, whose every deed and act—his effect upon…
Captian's Log Indomitable 23 Jun 202415 Jun 2024 I said it once before; you ignored it. I'll say it now again: You cannot win. All you can do is kill. It's not a fate I fear. Death's shadow's…