Stacey Kells never expected to fall out of reality when she packed her bags, got into a camper van with her two brothers and their best friend, and started travelling west.
Sure, they might have said something like that-that’s kind of the point of going off the grid, isn’t it? But no one thought it would happen quite so literally. Then the world got real empty, and it stayed empty.
Now it’s just the four of them, and a map that doesn’t make sense, and miles upon miles of desert and sky and endless empty highway. They embarked on this road trip to figure out what to do with their lives—but their lives don’t seem to exist anymore, and there may not be a way back home.
The Legend Liminal is an upmarket speculative novella in which three siblings and their best friend set out on a cross-country road trip only to fall out of reality and into an empty world where they must navigate their relationships, miles of deserted highway, and the possibility they might never return home. With the undercurrent of strangeness and timeslips as in Donnie Darko, the navigating of relationships through the multiverse as in Nino Cipri’s Finna, and the unsettling tone and liminality of a Murakami-esque setting, The Legend Liminal is a story about grief, hope, and reconciliation, and the way we find lifelines in each other when we can’t break free of the spiral of the past.
