Everyone is crazy to a certain degree. You have to learn how to better yourself as well as society with your unique qualities. I started this novel on September 2, 2025. I completed it on Tuesday April 7, 2026. It has 387 pages. It was written by A. G. Howards.
"A real artist bleeds for his craft."
Unhinged
p. 1
"We lived by a code, because we all wanted our freedom to last forever."
Unhinged
p. 15
Alyssa was kidnapped.
"The electricity that pulses through their wires becomes plasma and nutrients. They respond like living creatures. Their lights brighten enough for me to see underwater as the waves animate. Problem is, I haven’t been consistent with my magical exercises so even though I'm giving the strand life, I have no control. It's as if the lights have minds of their own."
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p. 26
"If you relax your magic will respond."
Morpheus
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p. 27
"You need a partner. One who's equal to you in every way."
Morpheus to Alyssa
p. 33
"Magic shines through. Magic that she's never tapped into."
Unhinged
p. 43
"As if triggered by my memory, an image begins to stir just behind my reflection. My concentration wavers, and the strand of hair falls limp. There's a blur of white, red and black checkered patterns in the glass. Sharpening to clowns from the hospital."
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p. 72
"Had you been studying the fundamentals of Wonderland instead of this pointless mortal brain-rot you would know how glamour works."
Morpheus
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p. 77
"War is never pretty."
Morpheus
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p. 80
"A tulgery's that is a two way portal to another dimension. A place called Any Elsewhere....the looking glass world. If the items that went through are turned away at the gates, they'll be sent back. And once something is spit back out, it rarely returns the same way it left. It's changed. Forever."
Morpheus
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p. 87
Alyssa and Jeb meet in the yard, preventing plant growth because they passed so much.
"Courage, Alyssa. Many changes come...mad, mad changes. They'll bring out the queen in you."
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p. 94
"It’s the kicks that let you know your alive."
Alyssa
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p. 122
Alyssa is being threatened by the Red Queen of Hearts in Wonderland because they are family and she wants to kill Alyssa to prevent her from overthrowing her in Wonderland. Alyssa has "crown magic" running through her veins.
Alyssa almost got killed on the traintrack stuck in her car, however the Cheshire cat saved her and Morpheus in the nick of time.
"Compassion has no place on the battlefield...magical or otherwise."
Morpheus
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p. 129
"All of my mosaics represent Wonderland and landscapes and supposed moments with Morpheus. No doubt it feeds his ego to know that he inspires my art. Or haunts it."
Alyssa
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p. 135
"In the human realm, one mirror can take you anywhere in the world, as long as there's another mirror big enough to fit through at the destination your aiming for. In Wonderland, they travel by mirror, too, but their rules are different. The glass there can spit you out anywhere in the netherling ream, whether there's a mirror there or not."
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p. 142-143
Iron warps netherling magical powers. Alyssa's mother would've been red queen if not for Alyssa's father and she would not have been born.
Electricity has no effect on Netherlings.
"I've known three generations of Liddell women. Counting the ones in London, there's been twenty or so. Most were obvious and unreachable-they didn't hear the nethercall. The others weren't strong enough to face their lineage without losing their minds. As for Alison, she and I are business partners. There has never been more between us."
Morpheus
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p. 178
"You are Wonderland. That is who you are, accept it, and you can rule our world....."
Morpheus
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p. 179
Morpheus just left Alyssa as well as the Mortal plane.
"One things for sure: There’s another player in this game. Someone in this human realm who doesn’t belong. I can't go back to Wonderland and fight a battle while my family and friends are unprotected here with mysterious Netherlings on the loose."
Alyssa
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p. 190
Alyssa father got into a car accident with her mother before she was born.
"Memories are so precious and priceless things."
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p. 197
"There shadows, but at the same time there not--all black and drizzly as if made of thick liquid."
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p. 216
"To it's foundation. Children's dreams are the infrastructure of Wonderland. You are versed in the land of Lewis Carroll's tales and his poetry: A childish story take and with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood dreams are trained in Memory's mystic band....thus grew the world of Wonderland."
Gossamer
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p. 222
"Wraths are much like lost children, since they are born of children. They're fearful, vexed creatures, unless they're tucked within their resting places. Once disturbed, they only wish to do their job so they might return to safety again. They crave the security that they're brighter halves, the borogroves, once provided which is why they're drawn toward the light and to you."
Gossomer
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p. 223
"Footprints are unique to every creature."
Gossomer
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p. 224
Alyssa stops the fire in the gym, which she started, to save her friend Tayler. Alyssa is suspended from school for the fire, Taelor refuses to talk with her for a month. At least she won't be sent to the Juvenile Correctional facility and can graduate with her class.
Alyssa goes to search for Jeb.
"Morpheus said the feline's (Cheshire’s) netherling's gift is mapping out the best way to solve puzzles, than fixing them."
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p. 240
"Since I'm partly human and an artist, creation is my power."
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p. 242
Jeb is in netherworld trance in which he wants to paint. Alyssa notices this because she is familiar with the netherworld and sees that his eyes look differently.
"There are so many different types of hunger."
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p. 245
"This is raw passion. He only reserves it for his paintings. He is not suppressing his wants or needs to protect me; he's not worried I'm fragile or breakable. He's starving, daring me to match his fierceness."
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p. 248
Jeb almost kills Alyssa.
Morpheus saves Alyssa from Jeb's trance. He gets some magical fruit from the netherworld and saves Jeb after beating him up a little, because he almost killed Alyssa.
Alyssa makes a deal with Morpheus to heal her from what Jeb did to her, so he won't think he is turning into an abusive man, and she will spend a day with him in Wonderland.
The crown grants you an eternity in Wonderland. Alyssa got wings.
"You are your most powerful when you stop resisting what's in your blood."
Morpheus
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p. 283
"Every memory is important because they shape who we are."
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p. 290
"Dreamers awake, but stay undone, your thoughts are but shadows eclipsed by the Sun."
Morpheus
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p. 291
"Stretch from the sunlight and shrink from the shadows."
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p. 307
Alyssa just saw one of her mother's memories. In it she discovered that her father was from Wonderland and her mother saved her from the Red Queen and Sister Two by putting him in a coma in the real world and keeping as far from Wonderland as possible. Alyssa figured out the Queen is planning to attack her prom.
Alyssa's father is out shopping when she and her mother return. Alyssa wants to include him in what their doing but her mother advises against that because those memories will be too painful for him.
"We're stronger than that, and we're so much better as a team, when are heads are together. It's when one of us is trying to protect the other by taking everything on themselves, that's when we mess up. Don’t you think?"
Unhinged
p. 343
Jeb proposes to Alyssa with a corsage before their prom. The prom is a costume party. Everyone is dressed up as a forest creature and the like. Red gets to Alyssa at her prom. Red is in a flower pot, which prevents her from catching Alyssa throughout the prom. Morpheus takes Jeb up an shoots the bugs. The bugs help Alyssa and her mom with Red.
Jeb and Morpheus were trapped in Wonderland. They take her Mom. Alyssa is locked away in a state hospital.
“Madness is part of my heritage. The part that led me to Wonderland and earned me the crown. The part that will lead me to face Red one final time, until one of us is left.”
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p. 374
Allie and her father shrink and escape the mental hospital on a beetle.
