# Field Notes #1 — Crying Skull

By [Pastiland](https://paragraph.com/@pastiland) · 2025-10-09

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2010\. I drew a skull that wouldn’t stop crying. Not grief—an engine. The left eye spirals out; the right shuts like a machine. It lives between the living and the un-alive, leaking names it couldn’t keep.

Pastiland grew around that mistake: trembling lines, faithful errors, maps of echoes. “Crying Skull” is one of the gates.

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*Originally published on [Pastiland](https://paragraph.com/@pastiland/field-notes-1-crying-skull)*