Captian's Log Again 4 Sep 2023 I had a strange desire to see you again, old friend. For a moment today, I half forgot what you were. It was a reflex. I should go see—I began…
Captian's Log Part of a burnt letter 2 Sep 2023 …form rejection is of course warranted, and though my colleagues have pressed upon me the limited resources of our periodical (I cannot write personal rejections to every inquiry which comes…
Captian's Log Plans 1 Sep 202319 Aug 2023 "Step one, we make a plan. Step two, we execute the plan. Step three, we realize the folly of trying to predict complex situations and human behavior. Step four, we…
Captian's Log The Ghost of the Mountain 31 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 They never knew the way he took through the burning forest, nor how that creature transformed, how that sniveling coward turned into the terror of the mountain. In a sense,…
Captian's Log Daughter of the Night 30 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 The daughter of the tyrant knows the paths of darkness, for her mother was a fay from the deep parts of the old forest. She knows the ways of shadows,…
Captian's Log Daughters of Lilith 29 Aug 202328 Aug 2023 It is the first, the ultimate, rule I must set: One must not sleep in the darkness, for the power of the mind is not stalled by any process; there…
Captian's Log Zombie Ship 28 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 I watched the zombie ship pass. The hull looked worse for wear. No hand steered her now, and I suspect she'd hit a few shoals on her voyage. How she…
Captian's Log Prometheus Sighed 26 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 How weary his face was in the firelight. The sagging skin under his eyes cast strange shadows over those spheres. From that darkness, he watched man, wary and careful, crawl…
Captian's Log Pan 22 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 I saw him once, on a little, river island. I was sitting on the bank with a line in, dreaming, staring at the sky. I felt—it's hard to explain—I heard…
Captian's Log The Final Blow of the Giants 21 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 He moved through that battle like a god of earth, more a force of nature than a mortal. The blows of his hammer would send men flying, and the darts…