Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part IV 28 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 As the dew dispersed into the ethereal, the fog fading away into the unseen, the beauty of the countryside bore in upon me like an infection, and, inescapably, the weak…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part III 27 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 Shifting the backpack's straps a little, searching for some relief, I grunted. I had taken only the essentials, but the weight still dug into my shoulders. The cold and dewy…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part II 26 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 As I surveyed the occluded landscape of fallow fields, my eyes passed over the shadowy outlines of a few barren, winter robbed trees and here and there, rows of leafless…
Captian's Log Shillelagh | Part I 25 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 The corpse lies still upon the earth, the crater in its head a sure sign it won't get up again. I stand panting in the cold morning, my breath, coming…
Captian's Log Lost in the Hedgerows 12 Mar 202513 Mar 2025 I see them in my dreams. Every night, it's the same. I'm running through some sort of maze, old forgotten hedgerows and dying bramble on lifted beds of brickwork. They…
Captian's Log A Chill 3 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 I cannot escape the chill. Every time I see one, even before I know…the first time, I just felt it. Didn't know what I felt. Didn't know what was about…
Captian's Log Run 27 Dec 2024 On the third day of my journey, I saw one. There are few pathways in those woods, and I had to climb over a knobby mound of raised roots where…
Captian's Log A Dream of Mine I Fear 26 Dec 2024 I sat beside a mighty stonewhere little moss had grownand in its shadow felt a chillthat haunts me this day stillFor I had stopped to picnic thereand breathe the open…
Captian's Log Dear Lord, From Lars 17 Dec 2024 My Lord, I thought perhaps you were coming. Perhaps you still are. You may be waylaid. You may, I can foresee, be harried with more pressing concerns. Or you might…
Captian's Log The Broken Things 6 Dec 2024 The broken things wandered about the swaying deck with a sort of haggard carelessness, and if they felt the downpour, they seemed to pay it no mind; they did not…