Captian's Log Happy Halloween 2025 31 Oct 202529 Oct 2025 Well we've had our fun, but soon the night is done. Kept awake by witches' cacklesStartled by the werewolves' howlStalked by stumbling zombie shadowsHarried by hell's haunting screamA vampire now…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 11 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 Her lids flutter open like butterflies. "Oh, what big eyes you have," she says. "Didn't you close them at all?" She stretches and lies back down on me. Her eyes…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 10 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 Now, as she lies sleeping in my arms, I wonder and fear at this love between us, this little life which no eye but God's has seen. What of my…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 9 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 She was only beginning to show, but I loved placing my hand on that round, little belly and feeling the burgeoning life growing there. A dark thought struck me as…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 8 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 She leads me back to our nest of love while I half carry her weight. Lifting her up in my arms, I settle back down on the mess of sheets.…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 7 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 Behind me the door opens, and my frowning wife walks in. She doesn't say anything, at first, only comes up and hugs me. I feel her belly pressing against my…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 6 Oct 2025 In the silence that only breathes around three in the morning, I stand before the bathroom mirror, feeling with tickling fingers the scar above my heart where the silver bullet…
Captian's Log The Screams Fade 5 Oct 20254 Oct 2025 Howls fill my ears as the dream fades, and I shoot up in bed screaming—or howling—I don't know. "Honey," a voice beside me moans. A cold, soft hand reaches out…
Captian's Log Starting Spooky Season 1 Oct 202530 Sep 2025 What's that? Is that a pumkin? Why are these leaves strewn about the lawn? Where's my candy corn! It's the start of spook season, the first that leads to the…
Captian's Log Face to Face 7 Jan 2025 Torn from gentle dreams and animal desires, staring open mouthed, the beast admiresoverhead, the hanging portrait:O what horrid fate!Himself there.Beware:Bygone gloriesmade mere memories.Man no longer man what art?Thou but residue,…
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