It's all about the Dead Bodies

Someone over at the Codex forum posted a question "How many people have you killed in fiction?" (A paraphrase, actually)

I had to laugh about that, as I've used the motto "It's all about the Dead Bodies" before, and even considered using that to title my blog.

Of course, some people, like wistling, have killed off entire planets, so they're overacheivers. I, however, do seem to have a tendency to rack up a body count.
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In all honesty, I did have one flash published wherein no one dies. But my unpublished stories (save one) seem to have a similar body count. Unpublished novels---they've got it, too. The WIP? Yep, I can think of two off hand, and one nastily violent attack (scalpel to face stuff, sorry)

And I do have a story out with no deaths in it, but one scene takes place in a graveyard (modelled on the Necropolis in Glasgow, of course). Does that count?

Why does this happen? Because death is a part of the world we live in? ::shrugs::

Progress, achieved without progress bars.

Page 277/510 on the Devil in the Details revision. Up to 101K now.

I passed through the halfway mark at some point today, but didn't kill anyone.

On track to finish by the end of April.