The Dead Kind

The Dead Kind is an on-running necromantic comedy told in 100-400 word extracts, that make up longer chapters. Part 1.1 can be found here. The first chapter (1.0) should be coming to an end on 10th August 2014. There will be break of unspecified length, and when the second chapter (2.0) starts, it will be directly narratively sequential. There's more information below about the characters and the genre. This page will change as the story progresses, and I may chuck in some more character sketches as a 'bonus' to you for reading this.

Meet Alex:
Alex is the narrator of The Dead Kind. She's in her twenties and she works unsociable hours. She lives in a small, English city on a street of two-up, two-down Victorian terrace houses of the kind you get everywhere in this country. More recently, number 25, has been split into an upstairs and a downstairs flat. Alex rents the downstairs, 25a.

Meet Sam:
 In 25b lives Sam. Sam is cute,  perky and a necromancer of no inconsiderable power. She is engaged in a magical war with her neighbour, Mrs-Next-Door. Nobody knows if she works or not. Her morality is equally open to question.

Mrs-Next-Door:
Is the enemy. Hostile to Sam and sensitive about her son's 'condition', she is the antagonist in their magical war.

What is a necromantic comedy? 
Ultimately, it's a comedy about necromancers. This particular aims for a tone somewhere between a buddy-comedy and some of the lighter sketches of Chris Morris' Jam. It's about being a twenty-something young woman in a small-time urban environment, it's about feuding with your neighbours, and it's about practising black magic.

And it's all based on a true story.

Sort of.