Captian's Log Clarence 30 Dec 202326 Dec 2023 He knew by a sharp and irrefutable instinct who it was. Who else would it be? Instantly, he was awake and sober, his hand reaching for the blessed beads he'd…
Captian's Log Clarence 29 Dec 202326 Dec 2023 Taking off his round spectacles, he gave them an absentminded scrub on the end of his shirt and replaced them. The blurry outline of his head gazed up at him.…
Captian's Log Clarence 28 Dec 202326 Dec 2023 He had stopped somewhere, he would have wondered where if he'd the mental fortitude, beside a lamppost beneath which a collection of rain had formed a muddy and reflective puddle.…
Captian's Log Clarence 27 Dec 202326 Dec 2023 The dark and terrible thought passed through his mind as he wandered, sleepless, over the rain-speckled pavement. Will I ever sleep again? The question haunted him as he propelled himself…
Captian's Log Life Update: Short Stories 4 Nov 2023 Well, I've caught something of a cold over the weekend. Feel fairly miserable and disjointed. Can't hold my thoughts together. Trying to write is hard; my reserves of self-control are…
Captian's Log Poem: Vampire Lover 31 Oct 202330 Oct 2023 Please Read: Vampire Lover Don't wake the dead tonight don't whisper in their ear don't raise this awful fright don't play around with fear Just let the past lie down…
Captian's Log Undeath 16 Sep 20239 Sep 2023 The horrible thing about a dead body is that it's dead. All the things, the accidents, the smell, the stiffening, the decay, are all symbols of one unendurable fact: a…
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 Head Heart Bowels 18 Aug 202312 Aug 2023 The jester's trick, the headsman's swing, the prince picks up his sword, The change is quick, the bell will ring, he cuts the silver cord. The prince is dead, the…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Unnatural 25 Apr 2023 It is unnatural to lose a child, but nature goes on. John's nature, always to pull, to search, to unravel, led him down a very unnatural path. Seventeen children had…