Captian's Log “No,” I Said 12 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 "No," I said. The cold and lengthy stare this earned was reward in and of itself. I smiled, trying to suppress the giddy laugh fighting to break out. "No," I…
Captian's Log Wisdom and Time 12 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 I have begun to think about the things I used to knowand how the days and weeks and years now come and go. When ignorant, I thought I knew much…
Captian's Log Presents 25 Aug 202424 Aug 2024 There are things one cannot fully encompass with words, but the writer must always try; and failing sentence after sentence, he may write a poem. Yet, my goal here is…
Captian's Log Essay: Through a Bodyguard of Lies 29 Jun 2024 Please Read:Through a Bodyguard of Lies https://taletold.wordpress.com/recollection/through-a-bodyguard-of-lies/
Captian's Log Counting Broken China 16 Jun 202410 Jun 2024 The pronouncement of the queen was death, as it always was, though I had the temerity to ask her why. She scoffed, she sneered, her face turned red, but this…
Captian's Log The Framing 15 Jun 20248 Jun 2024 A perfect lie's to tell the truth, a truth in confidence, that, like what priests hear in a booth, makes silence its defense. When not aired out in full context,…
Captian's Log Please Read: עת 12 Jun 20247 Jun 2024 Please Read:עת https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/%d7%a2%d7%aa/
Captian's Log Deathbed 21 May 2024 And when the end is near,what shall I fear?What threat or bribe, what want or dreadmight you prescribeby my deathbed?I am beyond such things as you.In death I'll speak what's…
Captian's Log Fool’s Serve 25 Apr 202422 Apr 2024 The king has made his ruleand now only the foolwill dare to speak his name,for none can play the gameof weaving lies into the shapeof the truth we can't escape.
Captian's Log Just Me 22 Apr 2024 I read over the weekend Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language." It had been mentioned in the Michael Knowles' podcast in relation to a story about a boy getting…