The Loss
This is a sample chapter from a project I'm working on. It is the first two chapters of a fantasy story. I hope to get some feedback and ideas about what works and what doesn't. They say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. I don't know if that is true, but as I find myself running out of choices and approaching a time when there may be no more left to make, I am filled with the urge to go back and examine those I made on my journey to this point. The most sensible way I can think to do that is by starting at the beginning of my story and working forwards. I will attempt to truthfully document my perspective on the events of my time, and their tragic culmination. Who are you, oh reader of my story? Will you understand the world I lived in, or the people and places that existed there? Many are now gone, and in the future, there may not even be a memory of their existence. Now is a time of collapse. And that is something that spreads. Small failu...