Captian's Log Candle & Skull 6 Oct 20245 Oct 2024 The spirits swirled around the counter as I pushed the bag of coins toward the keeper. "For the skull and black candle," I said with a sneer. "And a match…
Captian's Log The Smile of Death 17 Dec 202316 Dec 2023 I thought I saw death today, minding his own business. I stopped, trying not to stare, but wondering what was that expression there. You know him, yes? He's all bones,…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 16 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Yet, of the pagan gods, some voices said that they were demons dragging souls to Hell. Not all immortalities are equal; an indefatigable fire for the infamous, an endless suffering…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 15 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 My eyes met the skull's eyeless sockets, the shadowed holes reminding me—almost, I could hear a voice putting it into words—that I too would die, might lie as he, my…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 14 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Too well known for anyone to bother making a copy, too tired a point to need repeating, and so it was forgotten. A paradox, but such is life, a walk…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 13 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 Yet, if history was silent on its origin, it did whisper, a long, hoarse whisper through the centuries, carried on under the cries of war and famine and death, the…
Captian's Log Memento Mori 12 Jul 20238 Jul 2023 The daylight touched upon the corpse. It was little more than a skeleton covered in dust and cobwebs. The man had died at his desk, his head his own monkish…
Captian's Log Life and Death 12 Jul 2022 She hadn’t stepped into her father's old study since she was a girl. It had scared her then; it was forbidden. She remembered tip-toeing with bare feet among the shelves…
Captian's Log Restive Work 10 Feb 2018 Last night I dreamed of work: it was a place like a quarry, like a mine, like a desert. It was at once in a cave and out in the…
Captian's Log… A New World 12 Jul 2017 Underneath the steel plates of armor his muscles burn. Wearily, he swings the sword, dismembering the last shadow creature. Beneath him it writhes on the floor, blackness spilling out like…
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