Status Updates From This Thing Of Darkness

“‘Tis a most useful skill, lad. Gravediggers are never without work.”

I’ve been one, I can vouch for the validity of that statement

The boy’s involved, too. And the dog! We do nothing all day but wallow in filth and damnation, sir. Wallow, I say!” When he was done laughing, Will looked up to find Alvah had gone.

🤣🤣🤣Shakespearean sarcasm is priceless

Sometime after midday, he heard the opium whispering to him, promising dark, wonderful things. Desperate for distraction, he picked up his translation of the writings of Mithridates VI, king of ancient Pontus, who studied poison and poisonings extensively.

Ah, good ole Mithradates. An author after my own researching heart

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”

I don’t think anyone can write that truth without knowing it personally.