Death is inevitable, that is a fact of life. That, and the world is filled with dark secrets. When a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger forces Leda Faros to uncover hers, all of the Leantian empire will feel it. Now, she only has seven days to right the wrongs done to her and stop the empire from crumbling with the death of its ruler.

The Canterbury Tales meets Dark Fantasy in this epistolary flash fiction collection. Seventeen years. That's all it took, seventeen measly years, for the glory of a thousand-year-old nation to fade. A thief weighs betraying an old friend in her time of need. An armourer survives her campaign only to be stabbed in the back by those she loves the most. A priestess blesses the dead in the aftermath of a battle. A warrior mourns fallen comrades: brother in arms, brother in blood, brother in spirit. A dyer wishes for a grinding war, knowing peace will be his ruin. Countless others cling to survival as warring queens make them fodder for oblivion over and over and over again. Can there be inner peace in a world wracked with turmoil? How can one muster ambition when every gruelling day is a hair's breadth from being the end? Will they succumb to despondency and dread as their homeland marches solemnly closer to a fate from which there is no salvation? These are the lives of ordinary citizens whose only hope lay in memories. By telling their stories, they will be remembered even when the Void lays final claim to their shattered souls. THIRTY-THREE TALES OF WAR is a collection of flash fiction set in the dark fantasy world of The Chroma Books by Emory Glass. Originally serialized in the digital-only publication Worldbuilding Magazine and currently hosted on Campfire, the extended edition makes a return to Kandrisev at its darkest hour with expanded and freshly edited stories, three all-new, full-page illustrations, and additional lore presented by a previously unrevealed framing character.