Captian's Log The Old Tome 20 Nov 202318 Nov 2023 I had tried to unlock the mysteries of the old tome. The cracked leaves, the forgotten script, each and every hidden glyph—they're all here in my head, chiseled deep into…
Captian's Log A Hard Road 19 Nov 202318 Nov 2023 I walked a long and weary road to find you here beneath the earth, beneath a stone, beneath your name. I found your grave. I felt such shame. I wept,…
Captian's Log Sighs in Babylon 18 Nov 2023 "There's always a horribly foreign element in everything you say; imperial, even," I sighed. "Even if I thought your meandering prevarications could somehow hold together long enough to constitute an…
Captian's Log Smiling in the Dark 15 Nov 2023 The smiling thing in the darkness of my dreams perturbs me. Is it just a smile, a wicked, spreading smile filled with laughter and delighting in some secret-kept malice, or…
Captian's Log The Gargoyle 14 Nov 2023 Within a hidden nook above our heads, a vigil's kept, my chiseled guardian. Below his stony gaze, our world now spreads; his silent welcome leads and pulls me in. I…
Captian's Log Moondust 12 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 When the clouds parted, and the moonlight streamed down upon the square, I saw the stalking shadows. There was something in the faces of the monsters…Joel, the shopkeeper, those were…
Captian's Log I Have Been Dying for Years 10 Nov 20234 Nov 2023 I have been dying for years. It's a rather tiresome state, and at times I wonder if it is not the worst. A dead man, when he is dead, is…
Captian's Log A Terrible Shock 9 Nov 20234 Nov 2023 The dead man went out to play,and, at the end of the weary day,he smiled his ghoul smile at me.I smiled back, for I could seeto feign my ignorance of…
Captian's Log A Quiet Rest 8 Nov 20234 Nov 2023 The dream grows so faint now, and the obsidian spire, so like a darkened gash, rises in the sky, a starless darkness, and the silence of this pointed rock chills…
Captian's Log Life Update: Short Stories 4 Nov 2023 Well, I've caught something of a cold over the weekend. Feel fairly miserable and disjointed. Can't hold my thoughts together. Trying to write is hard; my reserves of self-control are…