Artisanal Article Machine

A repository for personal essays, humor, some fiction, information dumps, and opinion pieces

Member-only story

Occulture Vultures

Get Your Talentless Hands to Draw Biblically Accurate Cherubs

All you need is a tiny bit of confidence and even less skill

Gunner Barrett
Artisanal Article Machine
4 min readDec 16, 2022

--

Image by author

We’ve all been there. Your grandmother passes away and you’re tasked with painting a picture of Cherubs for the funeral. You’re confident in your Cherub painting ability, so you put brush to canvas without an ounce of fear or foreboding.

Only, you paint something dumb like this:

The Sistine Madonna (1512–1513) by Raphael

You reveal your painting at the funeral home, and everyone laughs. Their laughter turns to rage. They chase you around the parking lot with sticks and hammers. The funeral director agrees to toss your body in with your grandma’s for no extra charge. You’re beaten unconscious and thrown in the coffin, and awaken several hours later and several feet below ground.

Your grandmother’s embalmed corpse is your only source of food. Oxygen is your prime concern. Unfortunately, you didn’t realize that until after you began stress-eating.

Oh well.

After a couple hours you Kill Bill yourself out. Your life in this town is over…

--

--

Artisanal Article Machine
Artisanal Article Machine

Published in Artisanal Article Machine

A repository for personal essays, humor, some fiction, information dumps, and opinion pieces

Gunner Barrett
Gunner Barrett

Written by Gunner Barrett

Groovy Writer of Supple Words, LaserDisc Apologist, Grand Intellectual, Seer of Greasy Auras; Bots Welcome. Stories vaguely organized in my lists.

Responses (6)