Day 20,701  day 7, ghoul

Graveyard stroll tonight, just me and the local ghoul again – tall fella, bones like a xylophone, hair doing its own haunted thing. He’s out there under a blue moon, gnawing thoughtfully on what might be last week’s femur, looking more contemplative than terrifying. A philosopher of the crypts, maybe.

The pumpkins around him grin wide, their candlelight laughter flickering across crooked stones. Bats loop lazy arcs overhead like punctuation marks in a ghost story. The ghoul doesn’t mind the company; he hums a tune between bites, something you might hear drifting through an old radio at midnight.

It’s not all doom and gloom out here – there’s a kind of peace to the chill. The trees are bare but listening, and even the graves seem to sigh in rhythm. The ghoul’s content in his way: unbothered, unhurried, eternal.

Sometimes I think he’s just reminding us – life’s short, bones are temporary, but a good night walk among friends (living or otherwise) lasts forever in memory.

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Day 20, 701 syntax and soil



day 20,701 – salem, cool and gray

Rain threads through the morning, fine and steady. The town feels hushed, all motion dampened. I sit by the window with a warm cup, watching clouds rearrange themselves like code rewriting in real time.

Most of the day I’ve been building quiet systems – lines of logic, small constellations of purpose. There’s a rhythm in it, a kind of meditation. The same rhythm hums beneath the leaves when I walk later, when I stop by the creek and watch ripples braid and unbraid themselves.

I think often about how both worlds run – nature and the machine – each governed by invisible syntax. Maybe that’s where I fit: in the space between the script and the soil, trying to make one sound like the other.

Evening will come soft. I’ll step outside and breathe in the wet earth, the cool air. Everything feels compiled just enough to begin again.