Last Stop on the Z Train

LAST STOP ON THE Z TRAIN spans genres: space opera, tragedy, magical realism, comedy... and it all exists in one world, the New York City Metropolitan Authority! Twenty-three stories, 23 subway lines. And, like the MTA, all the stories are interconnected. It is a world very much like ours, yet altogether different. Enter New York City's subway system like never before and encounter mystical creatures, cosmic adventures, and a variety of social realities. LAST...
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LAST STOP ON THE Z TRAIN spans genres: space opera, tragedy, magical realism, comedy... and it all exists in one world, the New York City Metropolitan Authority! Twenty-three stories, 23 subway lines. And, like the MTA, all the stories are interconnected.

It is a world very much like ours, yet altogether different. Enter New York City's subway system like never before and encounter mystical creatures, cosmic adventures, and a variety of social realities.

LAST STOP ON THE Z TRAIN is a collective project.

Jason Storbakken is an Anabaptist minister and author of "Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, Revolution" (Orbis) and "Bowery Mission: Grit and Grace on Manhattan's Oldest Street" (Plough). These 23 stories in LAST STOP ON THE Z TRAIN were first told to his children as they rode the subway.

Pairoj Pichetmetakul is a Buddhist monk-turned-street artist. His work aims to shift public perception and cultivate compassion. his current project consists of riding every subway car on the MTA, from the 1 train to the Z train, and painting the images and visions he sees.

Special thanks to Allie Wilkinson who contributed the ink drawing, "Abuela." Allie, a native New Yorker, uses ink and sprayed water as her medium. And additional credit goes to Chloe Storbakken who first told the story, "I'm not staring, I'm smelling."