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My Dream Date With Mr. Suicide
My Dream Date With Mr. Suicide
I dream of a suicide by sniper. In the end, that would be my preferred method of ending it all. One well-placed shot from out of nowhere placed th
What a beautiful day for a picnic wouldn’t you say?
What a beautiful day for a picnic wouldn’t you say?
As I choke to death on a bite of ham sandwich with spicy mustard
the harp string snaps
and knocks the fried chicken out of
Suspenders
Suspenders
I take rusty metal to the recycling yard. It is a staging ground for age to revert to youth. Padnos, the old Jew, stands outside the junkyard’s office door and smiles
The Grieving Process
The Grieving Process
A shovelful of soil hit the lid of the coffin with a thump. “Saddest sound in the world,” my twin brother said. Good thing you weren’t there. We started to
Production
Production
Jagged-edged, it scraped the sides as it emerged.
Such disappointment: something so sharp
should have had crystal slivers, flashing lights
and metal levers, not be
The White House at Night: Prologue
You know the White House is full of goddamn ghosts, right? It’s the most haunted place in America. Dozens of ghosts. Maybe hundreds. People have seen dead presidents, family me
Falling Man
Story by William H. Duryea; pixel art by Ellie Fowl.
If you enjoyed this comic, you might want to check out Falling Man, a collection of similarly surreal and depressing stori
Resurrection Man / Rope Trick
Resurrection Man
excerpt from an interview with a professional grave robber
Q: Have you ever dug someone up and discovered that they were still alive?
A: No, they’ve all bee
Misery Tourism, Literally: The Wilson Street Memorial
The following is the first in a potential series of articles profiling depressing places and miserable locales. If you know of a particularly dispiriting hellhole or pit of despair
The Passion
Prologue
The Man Who Was Legion Testifies
I used to live over there, beyond those hills, in the catacombs, and sleep on the soft earth of fresh graves. I used to throw myself on t