Animated cartoon characters. Many are beloved, yes. But many more are simply ignored, filed away and destroyed when they are no longer needed. Until now. This is their story....

An early Gilded Age story. Róisín Campbell was eighteen when she stepped off a boat in New York Harbor in the summer of 1870. She knew little of the world beyond what she’d seen in her small town in County Limerick, Ireland, and what she’d read in the novels she devoured when her chores were done. She knew no one in New York other than her cousin Jimmy Regan and Michael Henry, a dapper bachelor she met on board who would...

The first time it happened, I thought it was a dream. At least in the beginning. Nuclear devastation had swept the Earth. The last thing I could remember was being engulfed by a wave of intense heat... ...then I awoke. I soon came to learn that I'd awoken six hundred and sixty-seven days earlier. If ever I had believed in a superior power, God, the Almighty, or another religious or spiritual figure, it was from that mome...