owl in my head

Chud's writings

The index.

Everything that's found its way here.

Story

Susie was always better at hiding.

  1. Hide and Seek

    A childhood game becomes something a brother can't leave behind. A long story about what memory lets you see.

    202034 min read

Anti-Stress

Dark comedy. Death tries being human.

  1. The Fourth Horseman's Diary: Entry 1

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

    20204 min read

  2. The Fourth Horseman's Diary: Entry 2

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

    20205 min read

  3. The Fourth Horseman's Diary: Entry 3

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

    20207 min read

  4. The Fourth Horseman's Diary: Entry 4

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

    20216 min read

  5. The Fourth Horseman's Diary: Entry 5

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

    20265 min read

Rant

A few things that bothered me enough to write them down. Some still do.

  1. All of us

    My wife and I are still a couple. We've just got more people we want to bring.

    20261 min read + more

  2. Reality's Mirage

    My brain accepts an airport in the kitchen, but can't handle an unanswered text.

    20201 min read

  3. Damn the Good

    Our capacity to serve is finite, so who should we choose?

    20204 min read

  4. Memes Are the Only Positive Output Since...

    Do you remember when social media was supposed to change the world?

    20203 min read

  5. Reminiscing the Golden Age of Blogs

    A picture of someone's dog. A terrible background. I miss that internet.

    20211 min read

  6. The Lonely King

    The sun and the moon. Which one deserves our sympathy?

    20202 min read

  7. Becoming a Dad

    The birth went well. Then they let us take her home.

    20202 min read

Random

What people leave with each other, whether they mean to or not.

  1. Nostalgia

    Two drinks before leaving. One question he doesn't want to answer.

    20201 min read

  2. Lost

    Monday mornings in the park. A pencil, some paper, and nowhere else to be.

    Unpublished1 min read

  3. Shun

    Another explanation. A closed door.

    20091 min read

  4. Descendants

    'Literature is like leaves on a tree; once the leaf drifts off the branch, it no longer belongs to the tree, and once a work is written, it leaves the author and becomes the property of the reader' Octavio Paz

    20202 min read

Lyrics

8 songs. These were meant to be screamed. Read them at whatever volume you like.

  1. Enigma

    The irony of involvement

    20061 min read

  2. Reborn through self corruption

    Fraud the smile again, pride has buried fidelity

    20061 min read

  3. A covenant for the ruin

    hostile visit of a holy man with its fuckin broken wings unfold,

    20101 min read

  4. Dispersion

    Soul astray

    20101 min read

  5. A Sop To Cerberus

    Heartless repulsion, left with dismantled remains..

    20101 min read

  6. Recreate

    Listen

    20111 min read

  7. Instrumento

    Kasuklam suklam na sistema

    20121 min read

  8. Break These Chains

    These demons fed us lies

    20141 min read