Death by Misadventure

What is the rime of cast and castor?
Where do we tend that which we rive?
Who is the Puppet and who is the Master?
Who is Dead and who is Alive?
- J. Adler Blyton (1808)

An idealist Grave Robber must match wits with a cemetery Guardian before he claims his prize, buried six feet beneath the topsoil. All appears ordinary until events take a decidedly strange turn and a long-dormant will is unleashed, bringing into question the roles we play and the value of things we seek.

Here, we have adapted and expanded a short poem by Blyton, inserting our own story and characters, and using Keirsey’s four archetypes of human behavior as a backdrop as the temperaments reveal themselves.