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.
Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead.
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When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him.
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