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Sleepless Cabin
@sleeplesscabin.bsky.social
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page 11. pop
The reaper lifts the pumpkin man's pumpkin head off it's vine body with a simple pop. The body crumbles and hits the ground with a thud. They both look at the body. The scene fades to a dark blue. Reaper eventually speaks "...Should have said 'stay' with me awhile, not 'live'. You'll still be dead." Pumpkin man responds, "No, it's OK, I got it."
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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page 10. grabbed
The reaper grabs both sides of the pumpkin man's pumpkin head, saying "It's not a bother." Pumpkin man thinks quietly for a moment. Then says, "...OK. I think I could use a change." Reaper replies, "Great. Good choice." "You think? "Yes."
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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page 9. hm...
The reaper gestures while explaining. "I can't undo your death but you can be something different and live with me for awhile." Pumpkin man begins to pace back and forth while reaper watches. "Oh. I– Hm." He paces silently for some time. He finally looks at the reaper with trepidation. "I don't want to be a bother."
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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page 8. what now
Pumpkin man is standing with the grim reaper in a blank void. He finishes his story with, "and now I'm here." He looks at the reaper's scythe. "And dead, I guess." The reaper points to the to the tip of the blade and responds, "Well, yes." Pumpkin man looks down and rubs the back of his pumpkin head, looking disturbed. After watching silently, the reaper goes off to the side and hangs up the tool above his head on a pair of hooks mounted to an unseen wall. They come close to the pumpkin man. Then the reaper hugs him. Pumpkin man is surprised with his arms raised.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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page 7. snap
Outside. The tall creature is now taller than the house, bending over it and grasping the edges of the roof. Lightening flashes in the distance. Rumbles and pitter patters of rain. Narration: "I don't know." The creature tears off the edge of the roof with a snap and a long groan. "I wish I did. Our talks started off well. I guess there was tension." The creature has fully removed the roof. The third panel looks down into the inside of the house, where the pumpkin man is screaming "AAAA". The fourth panel is blank except for the sound of a lightening strike, a huge groan, a scream, and continued narration: "I don't like to think about it."
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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page 6. yeah what happened there
The large wall-corner creature continues to look and blink down at the pumpkin man. He looks back up to it, reflecting on it. Narration continues: "Honestly, I was surprised how quickly I got used to having them around." Back in the present, in a void of white space, the pumpkin man pauses in his story. In the fourth panel he looks to his right, where the grim reaper is standing. They wear a black hooded robe and looks like a silhouette. The only contrast is a white skull and a typical scythe. The reaper is leaning forward into the conversation, a bit taller than the pumpkin man. The reaper asks, "What happened to make the thing outside want to kill you?"
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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page five. so no worries then
pumpkin headed man is looking up at a creature inside his house, tall enough to touch the ceiling. It's four thin limbs and three-fingered hands skitter across the walls and ceiling. It's enormous eyes bulge and glare with malice. It's legs are too long for the height of the room, causing it to squat down. Narration continues: "It wasn't the only malevolent thing creeping around my home either." Pumpkin guy lifts his beverage again and continues to look at the creature, a touch more relaxed now. "Still, the things INSIDE had already been there for several years." The creature skitters up the wall somehow, long 3-toeed feet no longer touching the floor. Narration continues: "They would occasionally try to hurt me but I somehow knew they didn't want to kill me." I'm the fourth panel, a six-eyed tentacled creature clings to the wall behind pumpkinhead, blinking. Seemingly unaware, pumpkin head takes a sip of his drink.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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page 4. better sit down
Inside the very sparse house, the pumpkin headed man sets his mug down on a long coffee table and hovers over a rectangular overstuffed chair. Narration continues: "It showed up two months ago, whispering to me through the walls. We would chat. I THOUGHT we had good rapport." He sits down in the chair with a sigh. "Now it wanted to kill me." He reflects a moment in the third panel, looking down. In the fourth panel, a skittering noise above him prompts him to look up.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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page 3. uh oh
outdoors in the rain, a tall, pale white creature stands behind some bushes between a pair of trees. The sky is lit up with lightening in the near distance. It looks towards the viewer. It has no face, but two bulging eyes that make up it's head. It has three long fingers on each hand and a short torso with long limbs. Onomatopoeia reads: FLASH, pitter patter pitter patter, etc.
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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page 2. close those curtains maybe.
We see inside the house. The pumpkin headed man stares out the window with a mug filled with a hot drink. The curtains are open. He is thoughtful. Narration reads: "I'd finished dinner but it wasn't time yet to get ready for bed." He starts drawing the curtains closed, looking out the window with more worry. "Even though I was bored I didn't want to do anything useful... but I knew I had to stop staring out the window at the rain." He nearly closes the curtains but leaves a triangular gap at the top. He looks behind him with apprehension. "...And also stop staring at the THING out there." In the final panel we can see through the gap in the curtains. Outside the rain is patter pattering. Thunder rumbles loudly. Amongst the trees and across the lawn, a tall, thin creature with enormous eyes stares towards the reader at the window, lacking pupils. It's torso is short and it's arms and legs are long. It has 3 fingers on each hand. The top of it's head - mostly just a pair of large eyes in a flesh encasing - reaches up to the top of the tree trunks.
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Post-Halloween spooky comic. Check back each night until it's done 👻
Something Different: a comic. A pumpkin-headed man looks at the audience silently, then blinks and tilts his head. He then looks off screen with a startled look, saying "Oh shit, right, the story." He starts explaining. "So as I was saying..." The last panel is a flash back to a night scene, on an isolated ranch house near some woods. It's raining hard, and a silhouette is framed in the bright window. "It was a dark and stormy night."
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Comic is delayed to November 1st as a post-Halloween comic 😌☕️ today's lesson for myself: maybe don't re-write a story 7-8 times at the last minute. Maybe it's just a 🤏 bit of a bad idea ✨️😜
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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july sky
July 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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second beach day: shooting for a third one before July hits
June 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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June 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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azaleas on the balcony
May 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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am becoming a paparazzi for birds
Two birds hanging on a picnic table, one looking at the viewer, the other looking out over a street behind a green metal fence
April 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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hugging a cat is usually at least 3% helpful in any situation
February 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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🍕🍕🍕
February 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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it's nice to connect
February 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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decompress?
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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It's those ghosts again
February 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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remembering
February 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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lunch was pretty good
February 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Hey, it's a whole page
February 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM