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  • Dan posted an update 10 years, 2 months ago

    Captains log….
    I am alien here and I am homesick for the ground already beneath my feet.
    To walk amongst these ghosts fills me with turmoil.
    Rape and pillage is life here to be otherwise is unacceptable perhaps even dangerous. I commit crimes merely by existing within the confines of this paradigm.
    This paradox has a negative effect on crew moral and many have fallen under its spell and now feed the parasite.
    Those left to fight on in horrified awareness do so grimly.
    Will go on because that is our particular insanity amongst the diversely insane.
    Technical note;
    The atmosphere contains a pervasive frequency of escalating fear and confusion higher than previously recorded.
    End transmission.

    • A superb opening to that science fiction novel you have trapped inside you Dan.
      Challenging, intriguing, full of nuance and many varied interpretations…where to from there?
      I look forward to reading the book

      • Or perhaps you just happen to live in Berlin or Cologne?

      • Your being too kind.
        I’ve already written the novel and it wasn’t that great.
        I once worked in bleak Berlin and in bath England I met a bleak German from Cologne. He repaired church organs and longed after my girlfriend, bleakly