Last Stop To Nowhere

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The Last Stop To Nowhere series is a collection of separate stories which interconnect into a full story, but can be easily understood if read out of chronological order. As stated in the caption of the cover, the series is: an accumulation of modern fairy tales and a graphic experiment in storytelling. The genres of the stories involved vary from horror to fantasy to romantic, thus meant to attract readers of all types.

The linking factor of all these stories is a location: Nowhere, Tennesse and the fact that throughout the story it becomes fully apparent that some very odd things tend to happen within the city limits. The series covers these events as they spread outward across the world, until they rise out of control and threaten to engulf the two worlds whole: the normal world and The Continent, the place were the 'odd things' are generating from.

When viewed as a whole story, Last Stop To Nowhere is very complex, but also very engaging, using a colorful, if expanded, cast and a constantly adventurous storyline. It carries a number of references and parodies of well-known fairy tales and popular culture, and several of the characters in the many stories make return/cameo appearances throughout the series. When seen only as a collection, the set of tales are made to stand alone so that while reading the entire series is not required, it is most certainly encouraged.

Involved Stories

In chronological order, the stories that appear in Last Stop To Nowhere are:

• The Travels of Pandora and her Company
  • The story of a little girl named Pandora and her giant wolf companion, Brunhild as they go on a great number of adventures.
• Homeland
  • When a young noblewoman-to-be called Papel de'Silvershade and a werewolf named Lunice are drawn into a complex plot to overthrow the kingdom, they must attempt to out-think those who plot against the masses.
• Das Spiffy
  • The story of a group of students in Nowhere who become involved with a strange, supernatural force known as the Cosmic Muffin and a group of condemned spirits.
• SuperFlous: The Story of a Story
  • The tale of a girl who, in an attempt to become a published writer, recieves a distress call from an alternate world which she manipulates into a story.
• Like That, That Way
  • A romance regarding a trio of best friends, and a crush that threatens their friendship.
• Heaven Can Wait
  • A mistake in the Judgement Hall sends a little devil named Bil to live among the angels. Since a soul can only be judged once, Bil is placed on Earth with a guardian angel in order to earn the right to Paradise.
• Sabbatarian
  • A series of related one-shot stories about a completely useless hero.
• Land in a Lullaby
  • The adventure of a teenage boy who finds himself thrust into the middle of The Continent as a griffin and partaking in a quest to rid the strange parallel world of the evil infecting both it and his home.
• The Trials and Tribulations of Sparrow: The Mocking-Girl
  • The tale of Coriandra, a college-bound young woman who ends up kidnapped and playing the herione of a dangerous, and all-too-real fairy tale.
• Haunted
  • When Liam, a young man attempting to find his place in the world, leaves from a horrid date at the end of a bad day, he manages to make life that much worse: he kills someone.
• Sisters: The Epic
  • The story of a rebel force led by five women of different races known as The Sisters and its attempt to stem the army of Undead which is attempting to conquer their world.
• imPerfect
  • The final tale of the infecting flux of Nowhere, the taint of superpowers which leak into the world at large, and the attempt made by a group of young adults to turn the tides against the hostility towards their kind.

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Authors	Nammish · Jester · Remzia</TD></TR>
Major Tenants	Knuckles · Whisper · Lara-Le · Mace · Ana-Le · The Pupples · Liam · Vivi · Hili · Keil · Marigold · Artemis · Mysterious Gunman · Ia</TD></TR>
Minor Tenants	Seth · Haven Lee · Amy Rose · Rouge · Alexander · Sonic · Shadow · Hamiko · Mrs. Remzicole</TD></TR>
Cameos	Vegeta · Laharl · Peres · Roth</TD></TR>