SEE drawings by the NOVELIST of her characters LAST RITE PART 1 - Young Maggie Stuart finds herself a pawn in a power struggle as old as time itself. Fortunately for her, Maggie is no ordinary girl.
LAST RITE PART 2 - Chapter 1.1: The Magician. Maggie Stuart dreams of flying, and experiences a far more grounded day at school.
LAST RITE PART 3 - Chapter 1.2: Maggie hopes she might connect with the boy she has a crush on, and instead has a frightening encounter.
LAST RITE PART 4 - Chapter 1.3: Jason Lawson peeks through a school window and gets his world rocked, and someone comes back into Maggie's life from her distant past.
LAST RITE PART 5 - Chapter 2.1: You Want Alchemy. Jason reflects on his shock of the previous day; Maggie passes out after being held back at the end of class by Mr. Hunt.
LAST RITE PART 6 - Chapter 2.2: Maggie wakes in the nurse's office, but catches Mr. Hunt acting suspiciously; the school assembly turns surreal and terrifying.
LAST RITE PART 7 - Chapter 3.1: Waking the Witch. Scott Saunders and Aaron Scribner have very different, but similarly terrifying, experiences after school.
LAST RITE PART 8 - Chapter 3.2: Maggie is horrified by more evidence of strange new abilities after she and Jason are taken to an unknown location.
LAST RITE PART 9 - Chapter 3.3: Jason makes a run for it, and Maggie meets her abductor at last.
LAST RITE PART 10 - Chapter 4.1: Get Out of My House. Jan Stuart is unpleasantly surprised by a figure from her past.
LAST RITE PART 11 - Chapter 4.2: An unusual police detective arrives to investigate the events at Westbrook Elementary and makes an unsettling discovery.
LAST RITE PART 12 - Chapter 4.3: Jan and Nick, locked in a burning house, get a hand from a very unexpected source.
LAST RITE PART 13 - Chapter 5.1: You Talking Me Into the Game of Chance. Maggie learns more about her captor, the "Burnt Man," but it requires both pain and fear.
LAST RITE PART 14 - Chapter 5.2: Maggie begins a bizarre test of her newfound abilities in a strange, altered Toronto.
LAST RITE PART 15 - Chapter 6.1: The Whole Story. Jason receives some unwanted and embarrassing attention.
LAST RITE PART 16 - Chapter 6.2: Aaron Scribner gets a brutal introduction to the Dark Man.
LAST RITE PART 17 - Chapter 6.3: Scott Saunders travels to the Catacombs in the disturbing company of the dangerous Arabella; Tamblyn bargains to stay on the Westbrook case.
LAST RITE PART 18 - Chapter 7.1: Somewhere In Between. Deep underground, a small boy swims alone in a cave fit for an Arabian prince.
LAST RITE PART 19 - Chapter 7.2: Maggie Stuart tries to make sense of the game Char has embroiled her in while navigating a phantom Toronto.
LAST RITE PART 20 - Chapter 7.3: Maggie hides successfully from Char; the Dark Man discovers his daughter's treachery.
LAST RITE PART 21 - Chapter 8.1: The Dreaming. Maggie wakes in the Dreamworld and goes to work.
LAST RITE PART 22 - Chapter 8.2 Maggie gets a little closer than is probably wise to one of her pursuers.
LAST RITE PART 23 - Chapter 9.1: Top of the City. Damon gets some feedback from Char; Maggie goes running inside a fancy hotel after discovering a little more about what she becoming capable of.
LAST RITE PART 24 - Chapter 9.2: Jason Lawson and Aaron Scribner share information and plot escape.
LAST RITE PART 25 - Chapter 9.3: Maggie tries to figure out how her powers translate to the real world.
LAST RITE PART 26 - Chapter 10: Sister and Brother. Damon and Arabella tread some dangerous ground leading Damon to a startling revelation.
LAST RITE PART 27 - Chapter 10.2: Maggie believes her mother has been killed in a fire; Aaron and Jason get Maggie up to speed; Jan and Nick reach a breaking point.
LAST RITE PART 28 - Chapter 10.3: John Tamblyn runs into a long-lost relative; Hunt works some dangerous magic.
LAST RITE PART 29 - Chapter 11.1: Under the Influence. Hunt puts Tamblyn away for safe keeping; Maggie struggles with what she is becoming.
LAST RITE PART 30 - Chapter 11.2 Hunt infiltrates Tamblyn's office at police HQ and gets closer to finding Maggie.
LAST RITE PART 31 - Chapter 12.1: Something Like a Song. Arabella does some damage control; Hunt tracks Maggie using arcane means.
LAST RITE PART 32 - Chapter 12.2: Arabella puts a plan into motion that will use both little Peter and an unwilling Scott Saunders.
LAST RITE PART 33 - Chapter 12.3: Scott descends with Arabella deep underground where even greater dangers await.
LAST RITE PART 34 - Chapter 13.1: Heads We're Dancing. Tamblyn realizes Hunt has made a fool of him; Scott goes grave-robbing with Arabella.
LAST RITE PART 35 - Chapter 13.2: Nick behaves badly, even for him, when Jan's boyfriend shows up.
LAST RITE PART 36 - Chapter 13.3: Hunt arrives at Char's lair for a surprising reunion.
LAST RITE PART 37 - Chapter 14.1: Show a Little Devotion. Aria plots with Hunt to irritate her brother; Scott gets a disturbing vision; Maggie is abandoned.
LAST RITE PART 38 - Chapter 14.2: Jason and Aaron begin the trial of their lives while Scott has already gone ahead.
LAST RITE PART 39 - Chapter 14.3: Scott finds himself back at a horrifyingly altered Westbrook Elementary; the balance of power shifts again between Char's children.
LAST RITE PART 40 - Chapter 14.4: Maggie gets an unexpected tutoring session.
LAST RITE PART 41 - Chapter 15.1: Walk Straight Down the Middle. Jan escapes custody with Nick in hot pursuit; the police realizes they have been lying from the start.
LAST RITE PART 42 - Chapter 15.2: Maggie is overwhelmed by her own apprehension; Hunt has an audience with the Burnt Man.
LAST RITE PART 43 - Chapter 16.1: Nevertheless, You'll Do. Jason enters the Dreamworld; Maggie gets the tables turned on her.
LAST RITE PART 44 - Chapter 16.2: Scott and Aaron are forced into terrifying alternate realities; Arabella enjoys tormenting her brother.
LAST RITE PART 45 - Chapter 16.3: Maggie gets some practical instruction from Hunt.
LAST RITE PART 46 - Chapter 17.1: Strange Phenomena. Jan and Nick play a trick on Tamblyn; Tamblyn uses some non-traditional means to get insight into Maggie's location.
LAST RITE PART 47 - Chapter 17.2: The Burnt Man offers Maggie a tantalizing glimpse of another world.
LAST RITE PART 48 - Chapter 17.3: Jason is forced to accept that he is buried alive; Aaron Scribner discovers that his Dreamworld antagonist is his own father.
LAST RITE PART 49 - Chapter 18.1: Foundations. In the Dreamworld, Aaron is asked to cooperate in his own execution.
LAST RITE PART 50 - Chapter 18.2: Hunt gives Maggie some serious thinking to do; Jason returns from his ordeal.
LAST RITE PART 51 - Chapter 18.3: Scott's Dreamworld ordeal forces him into a shameful decision; Hunt torments Damon on Aria's orders; Jason and Maggie find themselves in a surprisingly comfortable state.
LAST RITE PART 52 - Chapter 19.1: A Deal With a God. Aaron is reunited with Jason and Maggie; an escape attempt goes horribly wrong.
LAST RITE PART 53 - Chapter 19.2: Maggie runs in the one direction she would have least expected.
LAST RITE PART 54 - Chapter 19.3: Maggie is tempted by the Burnt Man but a dangerous energy lurks.
LAST RITE PART 55 - Chapter 20.1: Reaching Out. Maggie meets little Peter at last; Aaron and Jason find themselves still prisoners.
LAST RITE PART 56 - Chapter 20.2: Hunt receives some unwanted attention from Char; Maggie discovers she is an unwelcome guest.
LAST RITE PART 57 - Chapter 20.3: Maggie reaches some conflicting conclusions about why she was kidnapped; Char's children clash.
LAST RITE PART 58 - Chapter 21.1: The Morning Fog. Jan and Nick make their way towards Maggie with Tamblyn's help; Char questions Hunt; the sibling's rivalry reaches a peak.
LAST RITE PART 59 - Chapter 21.2: Jan and her party reach the quarry; Tamblyn discovers a message left for him by Hunt.
LAST RITE PART 60 - Chapter 21.3: Maggie and the others are taken before a much more frightening Char.
LAST RITE PART 61 - Chapter 22.1: All We Ever Look For. Maggie finds herself at the center of a devilish 'blood ritual,' but she is not the only one in deadly danger.
LAST RITE PART 62 - Chapter 22.2: Char's rite begins, and Maggie realizes the truth behind her captivity at last.
LAST RITE PART 63 - Chapter 22.3: As the ritual drags Maggie deeper into Char's power, she finds a disorienting connection between herself and her captor.
LAST RITE PART 64 - Chapter 22.4: Aaron rallies support for Maggie as she seems to falter; Arabella attacks.
LAST RITE PART 65 - Chapter 23.1: Aerial. Hunt marshals the survivors; Maggie discovers another new talent.
LAST RITE PART 66 - Chapter 23.2: Maggie leads her foe toward a dead end; Tamblyn makes some real magic; Hunt preps some pyrotechnics, and a little temptation.
LAST RITE PART 67 - Chapter 23.3: The first survivors reach the surface; Hunt's 'surprise' goes off; Maggie has a lesson in fear that seems all to familiar.
LAST RITE PART 68 - Chapter 23.4: Maggie experiences the pleasure of friendship and the burden of responsibility that comes from her power.
LAST RITE PART 69 - Chapter 24: How To Be Invisible. Left alone with Hunt and Tamblyn, Maggie makes an unthinkable sacrifice.
LAST RITE PART 70 - Epilogue: A day after the events in the Catacombs, Maggie receives another blow.
25 artworks that Jen Frankel plans to never ever actually create.
The 25 Imaginary Works series started off as a kind of a joke: to create a description of something that could never be achieved in actual media of any sort, but that would stimulate the imagination. Now they exist as twenty-five framed calligraphic treatments, digital versions of the same, and as post- and greeting cards. Eight have been made into short animated films. So twenty-five bits of impossibility have developed what you might call a life of their own, entirely outside the realm of the abstract and yet still without the potential (or at least the likelihood) to be rendered the way they themselves say they should be.
