Mournfield
The Unfinished One front cover. A Mournfield Story by Thomas Wong. A girl with long dark hair in a torn blue dress walks barefoot along a graveyard path, trailing a thread, toward an open door held in tree roots, with pumpkins among the stones.

A Mournfield Story

The Unfinished One

Thomas Wong

Picture book · ages 6 to 12 · now on Amazon

Some stones in Mournfield wear a name, while others are lost to time. One little girl has none, until a red thread guides her to a forgotten truth.

Find it on Amazon

ISBN 979-8-9977397-0-6 · AnyFyn, Inc.

From the back cover

Two bone chimes tap above the mound.The paper moths take to the air.Each stone in Mournfield wears a name.One little girl has none to wear.A red thread leads. The moths have stirred.Who keeps a name without a word?
Back cover illustration: a ring of paper moths rises over a leaning gravestone under a thin crescent moon, with a red thread in the grass below.

About the author

Thomas Wong

I was born in Hong Kong and moved to Toronto at seventeen. My parents grew up in places where families lost track of their stories and sometimes their names.

That loss does not announce itself. It shows up a generation or two later, in a kid whose real name only gets used at home, a kid who stopped correcting people years ago, or who cannot say what their grandmother did before she arrived.

A lot of us grow up carrying a tag instead of a name. Nobody in my house has ever said that out loud. I watch for it anyway, in the small moments when a child seems unsure whether they belong in the room.

The Unfinished One is my first book, a story about a girl whose name went missing and the transformation she undergoes while searching for where she belongs.

Quick answers

Where can I buy The Unfinished One?
It is available now on Amazon. Published by AnyFyn, Inc., ISBN 979-8-9977397-0-6.
What age is it for?
Readers aged 6 to 12. It is a picture book with a gothic, gentle tone.
Is it connected to Deader than Dead?
Both come from Mournfield, the same graveyard town. The Unfinished One is the picture book. Deader than Dead is the darker illustrated tale and album for adults.

Also from Mournfield: Deader than Dead, a darker illustrated tale with an album beneath it, for adults.

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