For 2026, I am participating in Wattpad's ONC'26; The Open Novella Contest. Using prompts, writers meet periodic deadlines with word counts and by the end, are judged for their novellas.
Tell It to The Necromancer is my original work for submission. I selected the following prompts:
Prompt 72: A real necromancer sits in on a fake seance.
Prompt: 78: You being to realize nothing is quite what it seems.
Prompt 82: You are in love with someone living and someone long dead. Neither one is willing to let you go.
The dead have always talked to Adalyn. She tries not to listen.
A necromancer should never spend her twenty-first birthday drunk and alone, begging the universe for a friend. It's how she wound up with a punk rock clinger, Virgil.
Virgil and her necromancing past are secrets she keeps from her friends. Adalyn doesn't want them to know her parents made her use her abilities to swindle grieving people out of their money and prized possessions.
When the newest member of their friend circle, Leon, wants to host a séance, his intentions seem innocent, even playful. Adalyn hopes the dead will stay quiet, but the night goes awry when Virgil starts messing with the group.
As the night unfolds, Adalyn learns Leon isn't who he seems to be, her friends aren't friendly, and something besides Virgil is in the house with them, and it wants to do more than talk.
*This is a mature story intended for readers 18+ years of age. It contains, violence, death, some foul language, sexually charged scenes, and other potentially offensive things I have yet to consider. Also, a seriously disturbed spirit with a mo-hawk.
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