Sasha's Adventures Underground
Charles Mallison (Novella)
Lauren Tyler (Illustrations)
2005
1st Prize
Major: Charles Mallison, Interactive Intertainment; Lauren Tyler, Cinema and Television [Production)
Undergraduates
Illustrated novella
Wonderland Award's inaugural year. In it Sascha wanders through a vaguely familiar version of this city, searching for a mysterious party and running into alternate-world versions of the characters from the Alice stories. This ambitious work features poetry, word games, and a host of offbeat characters. A modern-day version of the rabbit hole, the Los Angeles subway serves as a metaphor for the main character's psychosexual schizophrenia.