• The girl that books built
• Original writing
• Further reading

Original writing

Essays

My two undergraduate dissertations are reproduced here for posterity.

• T.S. Eliot: religion and revelation
• Medieval mysticism and the textualised body

LiveJournal

Most of my original writing these days is published on my LiveJournal. Selected highlights are linked below:

May contain facts

• For those about to grok
• /nick

Not raving but ranting

• Sandwichcraft
• Picked last
• There's nothing wrong with you...

Observational comedy (and tragedy)

• Scenes from...
• Strange days, here we come
• Stopping by woods
• Eight-legged groove machine
• Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll

Autobiography, with a hint of fiction

• Specs offender
• Where have all the flowers gone?
• Smashing the mirror
• Saying goodbye
• Short skirts and low-focus thinking

Storytelling

• Eel meat again
• Careful with those tracks

Melancholia

• There was once a road through the woods
• Writ in water
• I am wearing my new dress tonight
• One of these days...
• The skull beneath the skin
• There's a place for us

Not published on LiveJournal

• Someone else's war (originally published on Quiet Little Lies)
• What really happens in the Bodleian (as accidentally immortalised on alt.humor.best-of-usenet)
• "Observations upon the Freedom of the Moderns, etc." (unfinished)
• Story (A hazy shade of Winterson)
• Looking Back
• The Bad Thing
• Eggs
• A sense of falling

Poetry

• Breakfast in bed (a parody)
• Juvenilia