New dark fantasy story finished: Masks of Deception

It maybe rubbish, but I have completed my third dark fantasy tale over the past couple of weeks, a 7000 word tale I am currently calling "Masks of Deception", featuring my recurring character Ossani the Healer, along with his apprentice Arrenya. New characters are a second apprentice and a barbarian thief called Crossan, who bears many superficial similarities with another character whose name begins with "C". How things develop with this "C" though is another matter...

Oh, and there's a sinister Agryptian sorcerer-priest called Hoshan Kha.

I must admit, whether the tale's good or bad, I enjoyed the ride.

 

Over the past couple of weeks I have also completed two other tales:

"From the Ashes" (a Welgar story) at 6700 words

"A Murder of Necromancers" (A Horbeck story) at 13600 words 

My sword and sorcery tale Lies and Treachery to be serialised in 2-parts next year

Contract signed for another sword and sorcery tale, Lies and Treachery, which is a further adventure of my mercenary heroes Horbeck, Brud and Asner. This longish story (11,100 words) will be serialised in April and July next year.

This is a sequel to The Demon from Another World which was recently published in Anthology of the Damned: Necromoirrium from TreeShaker Books. This was also quite a long tale, standing at 9,900 words.

I now have to find homes for my other Horbeck & Co tales: The Mummified Demi-God, Dead Thieves in the Night and The Sorcerer's Casket.  

Just to add to the tally I'm currently working on yet another story in their saga, A Murder of Necromancers.