Captian's Log I Have Forgotten if I Am Dreaming 9 Sep 202530 Aug 2025 I have forgotten if I am dreaming. All these faces, supercilious, like grotesques, like jokes. These scowling demons rising over me, can they be real? They seem so distant. "Words,…
Captian's Log A Digression | Notes on the Differing Types of Undeath 30 Jun 202429 Jun 2024 There seem to me to be different types of undeath. In the basic conceit, undeath is best described by Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: Neither living nor dead. We…
Captian's Log Under Black Plumes 23 Apr 202322 Apr 2023 "Why does it seem, no matter how many centuries pass, you're always the same. These fools have disturbed my crypt and awoken me after some thousand years, and yet there…
Captian's Log Darkness There Forevermore 12 Nov 2022 I saw the sun set upon the city and knew it would never rise again. There would be nothing but darkness, darkness there forevermore. And the people of that city…
Captian's Log Lunacy 19 Mar 2019 I want to belong, but the light is fading. All around me friends hug each other; I shake hands. I go for the door. Outside is silence. The moon governs…
Captian's Log Essay: Hope Nevermore 16 Nov 2018 Please read: Hope Nevermore Excerpt: I see the window and door as representations of the same event. The same call, the same tapping, draws the narrator to each. The consequences of…
Captian's Log Over the Door 7 Jun 2017 The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a wonderfully dark and spooky tale. In the first two stanzas a theme develops pairing some knocking sound with the memory of the…
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