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 Zombie Reflection 28 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 The hungry corpses wander over me.I seek my refuge in a shallow grave.Beneath the floorboards, through a crack, I seea mirror that holds the whole undead conclave. Their stomping feet…
Captian's Log Undeath’s End 27 Jun 202422 Jun 2024 The ghoulish figure sat, grinning his lipless smile with a vacant stare, upon a stony bench under the flowering cherry whose dark trunk and branches held high the heartrendingly beautiful…
Captian's Log Undead Descent 14 Apr 202413 Apr 2024 I wonder when death came for meand why he couldn't seehis way to finishing the deedbut let it go to seed. Undead, my silent curseis growing worse.So worn, I want…
Captian's Log I’th’other Place 29 Mar 202425 Mar 2024 Delay your deadly cant, you worm eaten corpse. Shut your mouth and quit your noise. I'll have no more of you tonight, no more your gibbering howls and gulping growls.…
Captian's Log Somewhere Between 14 Mar 202411 Mar 2024 They sallied from the depths of Hell, too worn and weary to see themselves in the frightened eyes of those who beheld their rotting forms. How cold it all felt,…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 10 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 And, in its shadow, we have ourselves become deathless, dreamless, sleepless. No, only a dull sense of time still remains, but it is time without an edge, without an end,…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 9 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 Cast from heaven, their bodies fell like drops of blood upon the dusty ground, and no one dared touch the cursed fowl lying in the dead thing's shadow. Oddly preserved,…
Captian's Log How Great Is That Darkness? 8 Mar 20244 Mar 2024 The dead thing lay in the sky like a dripping, rotting sore. It was flesh, as far as the senses of man, earthbound man, could tell—that is, as far as…
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…
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