Six New Stories Completed Since The Start Of July

I have been enjoying a (for me) unique writing spree since the start of July, with drafts finished for six new swords and sorcery tales:

5th July - "From the Ashes" - 6,800 words

9th July - "Masks of Deception" - 7,000 words

13th July - "Trapped in the Dreamlands" - 6,600 words

26th July - "Escaping the Dreamlands" - 15,200 words

28th July - "The Narcolopsia" - 4,500 words

4th August - "The Dark Sacrifices" - 11,800 words 

51,900 words in total.

Four concern my hero Welgar,  one is about Horbeck and another is about Ossani the Healer.

I am now two thousand words into a story about a companion of Horbeck, Asnar the Josanian. 

How long this spree will last I have no idea, other than it will certainly end by the start of October when I begin reading submissions for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11. From past experience this always puts a complete dampener on the own writing, which is unlikely to revive before I start reading submissions for Swords & Rockets: Tales of Futures Past in January. Still I have now 34 swords and sorcery, dark fantasy tales finished and another likely to be finished soon, which I am happy about as I only fairly recently began to concentrate on this genre.

New Horbeck tale finished - The Dark Sacrifices

Since starting it only a few days ago I have finished a new 11,800 word Horbeck tale, "The Dark Sacrifices", which includes the death of one regular character, a dramatic change of life for another and the elevation ro a higher status and another dramatic change of life for a third. 

My Horbeck tales started with "The Demon  from Another World", which was published in Anthology of the Damned: Necromorrium last year.

Here is a full list of my Horbeck tales so far, both published and unpublished:

"The Demon from Another World" - Anthology of the Damned: Necromoirrium, 2024 - 10,000 words

"Lies and Treachery" - Crimson Quill Quarterly issues 6 and 7, 2025 - 11,100 words

"The Mummified Demi-God"  - 4,800 words

"Dead Thieves in the Night" - 10,300 words

"The Sorcerer's Casket" - 15,700 words

"A Murder of Necromancers" - 13,600 words

"The Dark Sacrifices" - 11,800 words

 

77,300 words in total!