"A Handful of Souls" - Progress 2

A Tale of Love, Loss, and Necromancy

"A Handful of Souls" will be a Dark Fantasy story following the runaway, Cat (Catriona), having what little she has being cruelly taken from her. Lost and alone, when a mysterious power offers to bring back some of what she once had, Cat has to accept. But this world offers nothing without cost, a harsh lesson she will now have to learn.

Hello hello! I'm happy to say the story is coming along very well. I'm currently working on chapter seven, though the chapters are remaining quite short at around four to six pages each. 

I'm liking these short chapters. Being able to finish one quickly is a nice boost.

And I actually have some solid ideas for a middle and end to the story, which is incredibly rare!

"A Handful of Souls" - Progress 1

Hello hello! After getting distracted with 'Metal Gear Survive', addictive game (wish I got it when the multiplayer was still alive), I've managed to make some decent progress on my new story.

Speaking of which...

What would you give for a chance to see the loved and lost once more? To hold them again? To feel their warmth? To share some final words?

What would you be willing to sacrifice?

Questions a young Catriona will have to answer in

"A Handful of Souls" (a working title).

Though the two chapters I've written have been quite short so far, they've been pretty intense and things are not slowing down.

This will be a dark fantasy piece heavily involving necromancy, loosely based on D&D lore.

 Assuming all goes well, I'm looking to make it into a novella.

A New Beginning

After an immensely busy Halloween season I've finally decided to begin a new tale that I'd been rattling around for a little while.

Don't have a working title yet, but the idea is the young protagonist flees from a lethal bandit attack on her companions. Coming across an ancient phylactery left by a long gone lich whose greatly weakened soul still remains inside, the protagonist uses lingering necromantic energies to get revenge on the bandits and reanimate her fallen friends. The lich keeps the protagonist and her friends 'alive' in exchange for fresh souls with which it seeks to eventually reform its decrepit body and once more walk the mortal world.

Just getting started, not sure where it's going to go, but the writing has begun!

I'll likely be bouncing back and forth between this and Alice for now, but the Chapter Art Drawing Contest is still going on, currently in Chapter 4's. Chapters available under 'The Jellybane'.