@Emerson - Not always, but it's hard to write about history without a little darkness and the period chosen for Death Machine? Definitely tragic and morbid.
Tag the YWS'er who you'd most like to have backing you up if you were stranded on a desert island.
No, it's not that you didn't succeed. You accomplished a lot, but, if you want to touch people, don't concentrate so much on rhyme and metre. Think more about what you want to say instead of how you're saying it. — LCDR Geordi La Forge