Evil spirits. A cursed prince. Death itself in disarray. Iris just wants to go home, but fate has other plans for this young priestess and her odd companions. /// The land of Erinlin is dying, its ancient traditions choked out by the Kaerent church and its true priestesses, the Candlemaidens, increasingly regarded with fear and suspicion. All Iris wants is to tend her candles, win her shade battles, and chat with the spirits of her realm. But when she is torn away from her home by the Kaerent king, she learns that her country needs her to be far more than a typical Candlemaiden-- she must be as the legendary priestesses of old and walk through Death itself. *** Cover help from the awesome @ArdenBrooks. Special thanks to @rainersalt, @giveitameaning, and @piperjones033 !

In the Kingdom Of Nam-Tar, the concept of Death is represented by two separate, yet equally important, entities: the poor and unfortunate mundane objects, who store the souls of the fallen; and the overworked and underappreciated Reapers, who collect them. These are their stories. 'Our Twisted Little World' is an Episodic Fiction Novel, each chapter is conceived as a self-contained story, following a different set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end," but following a familiar genre, theme, and concept: Death, infuriated by the failures of humanity, decides to take matters into his own hands. And, instead of sending his reapers to collect them, simply allows their fallen spirits to fester and stew in the pain of their final death rattle. Forcing them to suffer at the hand fate dealt them and allowing them to become malice, and to punish those left behind. 'Our Twisted Little World' deconstructs human society and its norms and recontextualizes them from a different, twisted point of view. Telling their tales through the eyes of humanity's fallen, trapped in an object or social structure connected to the concept.