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After lights-out
The Last One Awake
At nine o’clock the whole town falls asleep mid-sentence — the baker, the bus, the birds. Your character does not. Somebody has to find out who is turning out the lights.
- 12 illustrated pages
- Read online
- Keep the PDF
- Illustrated in watercolor
Free to try. We draw your character first. Love it, or ask for a redraw.
Turn the pages of a finished book →
Nine o’clock arrives, and the town stops in the middle of itself. The baker sleeps, the bus sleeps, even the birds sleep. Only your character stays awake. A walk through the silent streets becomes a search for whoever is putting everything to bed. As the lights go out farther along the street, there is finally a direction to follow, and nobody awake to come along.
For you if an eerily quiet town sounds like bedtime company.
What is inside this book?
Over twelve pages, a town’s sudden sleep becomes a solitary walk and a search along darkening streets. You read one or two short sentences per page. Watercolor illustrations set the sleeping baker, bus, and birds within the town, giving the silence a visible form while the text follows the question of who controls the lights.
Who is this one for?
Choose this if you like the uncanny feeling of a familiar place emptied of its usual noise. Someone you know who enjoys nighttime wandering and unexplained happenings may appreciate the search through a sleeping town. It fits bedtime when you want a quiet mystery with an eerie edge.
The Last One Awake is a personalized illustrated storybook of twelve pages about a solitary search through a town that suddenly sleeps.
More like this
The Monster Who Was Scared of the DarkThere’s something under the bed, and it is shaking.
The Shadow TrialAlone, at night, with no light. Twice failed already.
Captain of NothingThe map only works once the crew is completely lost.How is this one different from the others?
All four books are the same price, the same twelve illustrated pages, read online and downloaded as a PDF. What differs is the situation, the feeling, and the style it is drawn in.
| Story | The situation | Mood | Illustration | Choose this if you like |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last One Awake — this one | A lone search through a sleeping town | eerie, quiet | Watercolor | empty streets and the mystery of everyone’s sudden sleep |
| The Monster Who Was Scared of the Dark | A first hello to a frightened bedroom monster | tender, funny | Bright cartoon | awkward introductions and discovering a monster shares the same fear |
| The Shadow Trial | A final school trial in complete darkness | tense, solitary | Comic | facing a feared test after two failed attempts |
| Captain of Nothing | A squabbling crew with a contrary map | chaotic, comic | Storybook | crew arguments and navigation that depends on getting lost |
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