The Mortal Burden
Book I
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The Mortal Burden – Chapter III
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter III
The Mortal Burden – Part XIII: Zombie or Zombi?
The Mortal Burden – Part XIV: “I Can’t Take You Anywhere!”
The Mortal Burden – Part XIV: The Third Coast
The Mortal Burden – Part XV: Infinity as My Witness
The Mortal Burden – Part XVI: The 4th Wall
The Mortal Burden – Part XVII: Eternity Is a Concept
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The Mortal Burden – Part XVII: Eternity Is a Concept
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The Mortal Burden – Part XIV: The Third Coast
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter III
The Mortal Burden – Part XIII: Zombie or Zombi?
The Mortal Burden – Part XIV: “I Can’t Take You Anywhere!”
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The Mortal Burden – Chapter 2
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter II
The Mortal Burden – Part VII: Remember
The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
The Mortal Burden – Part IX: Cold Heat
The Mortal Burden – Part X: A World to Die On
The Mortal Burden – Part XI: Boundaries Into the Deep
The Mortal Burden – Part XII: The Singular I
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The Mortal Burden – Part XII: The Singular I
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter II
The Mortal Burden – Part VII: Remember
The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
The Mortal Burden – Part IX: Cold Heat
The Mortal Burden – Part X: A World to Die On
The Mortal Burden – Part XI: Boundaries Into the Deep
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The Mortal Burden – Part XI: Boundaries Into the Deep
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter II
The Mortal Burden – Part VII: Remember
The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
The Mortal Burden – Part IX: Cold Heat
The Mortal Burden – Part X: A World to Die On
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The Mortal Burden – Part X: A World to Die On
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter II
The Mortal Burden – Part VII: Remember
The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
The Mortal Burden – Part IX: Cold Heat
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The Mortal Burden – Part IX: Cold Heat
The Mortal Burden
Book IChapter II
The Mortal Burden – Part VII: Remember
The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
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The Mortal Burden – Part VIII: Gods of One
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The Mortal Burden – Chapter I
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The Mortal Burden – Part IV: Six feet of razor-toothed bloody destruction
The Mortal Burden
Book I
Chapter IThe Mortal Burden Part I: Specicide Blues
The Mortal Burden Part II: This Mortal Burden
The Mortal Burden Part III: Blood Furnace
The Colossus – Goya The Mortal Burden – Part IV: Six feet of razor-toothed bloody destruction
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The Mortal Burden – Part III: Blood Furnace
The Mortal Burden
Book I
Chapter IThe Mortal Burden Part I: Specicide Blues
The Mortal Burden Part II: This Mortal Burden
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The Mortal Burden – Part II: This Mortal Burden
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The Mortal Burden – Part I: Specicide Blues
The Mortal Burden
Book I
Chapter II decided to serialize my novel. Chapters are just two big for this media type.
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The Singular Succession
For whatever reason these four short scifi stories are interconnected. It was never my intention nor concept, these stories were written at different times in my life; yet they all speak to the philosophy & concepts of reality, creation, chaos, order, and individuality.
All works ©️ Jacob Pickard. 1995-2026.
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Cacophony
Cacophony Album Cover – Rudementary Peni release 1988
A wall of sound, like a train into solid mountain granite
A cacophonic quartet of smashing rhythm
Surrounded by darkness and a halo of thin light.
The bar, black walls, stale smoke and beer
Illumination of execution by genocide, crucifixion for/of beliefs
Murder, letting of blood
Metamorphosis
Material to ethereal, body to spirit
Or some would call it glory, ascendancy of man to heaven
Cyclical thunderous melody, droning and blooming into monotonous complexity
Bombastic renewal of circles cycles, of intricate repetition.
The eye of Isis, the death and rebirth of Osiris. The annual flooding of the Nile.
Life is a system, the process of rearrangement of cyclical moving parts, like a wall of sound.
Written around ~1995 after seeing the band Neurosis at Okayz Corral in Madison, WI. It was so loud I couldn’t hear correctly for an entire week. ©Jacob A Pickard. 2025.
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Strength
I’m stronger than you’ll ever be
Because, to endure and have your sanity, to make it so long, a clearly defined character, rock hard in its clarity
I am strength
hidden in the hot exhale of your breath
only seen in the cold void
when there is nothing left
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May Haiku
Things have changed.
Time vigor pride beaten down by the club of life.
Resurrection?
Not while we’re alive.
©️ Jacob Pickard. 2025. Written ~ 2010.
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