Captian's Log The Alien 4 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 As I go through the old ritual of adjusting the mirrors, I cannot help but see my own face, twisted, bloated, colorless. Hardly human anymore. The contours are too smooth,…
Captian's Log The Alien 3 Apr 20261 Apr 2026 I hear the dancing music, and the voices of happy youth. I think, even, I can smell the sweat. Earth. It has been a long time. Standing under the eaves…
Captian's Log The Alien 2 Apr 202621 Mar 2026 Many surgeries since now and boyhood, good surgeries, and I can tell you the distance of that dog more accurately than radar. I can also tell you that it's coming…
Captian's Log A Review? An Interview? 1 Apr 2026 I'm excited to announce that While the Elephants Danced has been featured on a website called Ginger Nuts of Horror. I emailed them asking if they'd review my book, and…
Captian's Log Smiled 31 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Looking ahead, I find another shopping trolly in my car's path. Sighing, I pull the emergency break, unbuckle, and open my door. Pushing the cart out of my way, I…
Captian's Log Smiled 30 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Still, one would wish the world be a little more sensible, I thought crawling into my car, a little less ostentatiously inconstant. Seatbelt, key, engine's roar, mirror, slowly pulling out,…
Captian's Log Smiled 29 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Was I mad? Was the world? Was this a dream? Why had I smiled, and why had it felt so bitter, that smile I made at the wall and black…
Captian's Log Smiled 28 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 And was it all a dream? The thin, black lettering was gone, the wall clean. There was no sign of a pressure washer or smell of fresh paint. I stopped…
Captian's Log Smiled 27 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 "Have you stopped to smile today?" asked the spray paint, a black scrawl against a white wall. I smiled before I knew it, half-sorry I did. It was not born…
Captian's Log White… 26 Mar 202620 Mar 2026 White. All white. Burning white. Up, down, right, left, all around me, everywhere, nothing but limitless white. My eyes hurt with the soft but ever-present luminosity, but my eyes wouldn't…
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