@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.
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. — Christopher Darlington Morley