owl in my head
Death carries a grocery bag along an empty road toward an office building

Anti-Stress / A dark comedy

The Fourth
Horseman

Death got a job.
It did not improve his mood.

The diary

Read in order. 5 entries.

  1. 01
    Death’s female checkout-operator guise faces a conveyor belt full of groceries.

    2020 / 4 min read

    Checkout

    A customer says he's taking forever. He collected her husband last night. Death's first week at the checkout.

  2. 02
    The novice fighter offers open palms to his opponent inside the cage.

    2020 / 5 min read

    Cage fighter

    Death has never lost a fight. Most of his opponents were already dead. This week, they aren't.

  3. 03
    The priest listens through the wooden lattice of a confessional.

    2020 / 7 min read

    Priest

    A collar, a confessional, and a microphone. Grim discovers how much he likes being listened to.

  4. 04
    The vagabond sits apart from passersby who look through him.

    2021 / 6 min read

    Vagabond

    Yesterday they called him Father. Today they step over him. Grim spends a week without a door he can close.

  5. 05
    Tim Reeper reads the newspaper classifieds at his software-office cubicle.

    2026 / 5 min read

    Office worker

    Grim gets a desk and an office alias. Then a train derails outside, and the other job calls.