Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Captain Space Pirate, Gaze

 Captain Space Pirate, Gaze


Captain Space Pirate, who lives among the stars, still - in quiet moments - gazes out the pothole at the more distant stars and still wonders what it would be like to live among them.


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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Captain Space Pirate, Mutiny

 Captain Space Pirate, Mutiny


Captain Space Pirate, always weary of mutiny, closes the airlock before Sven makes it back up the ladder.


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Monday, January 29, 2024

Captain Space Pirate, Beyond Pluto

 Captain Space Pirate, Beyond Pluto


Captain Space Pirate, evading two Ranger Cruisers by pushing out past the moon Hydra, accidentally and forever unknown to anyone, becomes, for the next seven years, the human who has traveled the furthest from the planet Earth. He is apprehended when, terrified, he circles back toward Pluto.


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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Captain Space Pirate, Bloody Booty

 Captain Space Pirate, Bloody Booty


Captain Space Pirate, befuddled, explains to the Rangers that he does not know how that crate of energon cells bound for the Triton Moonbase ended up on his ship. Or why it is so bloody.


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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Captain Space Pirate, Galley

 Captain Space Pirate, Galley


Captain Space Pirate, insomniatic in the galley hoping to find food he had not found when he'd looked before, found the not yet dead body of a termite. It's scurrying across the bolted down steel table deranged and nonsensically erratic. Why are you in space? he thought to ask it but then didn't, to conserve his energy.


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