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  • Tipping The Velvet {one}

    This is a novel I have just started, set in the Victorian Times. It was previously set in 1920 but it was far too hard for me to write as ...

    4 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {two}

    This is a novel I have just started, set in the Victorian Times. It was previously set in 1920 but it was far too hard for me to write as ...

    10 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {three}

    I've edited the last chapter; and Anne has declined the offer of money, instead of accepting it. Chapter 3 When they had left the stage, Mr Murdoch loosened his grip ...

    6 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {four}

    Eurchh, I know this chapter is probably a bit too soppy and lurv-filled for some of my faithful readers, but trust me, teen-romance is not going to be the objective ...

    9 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {five}

    So, I've finally managed to work on characterisation. I haven't worked it into this chapter explicitly, because this is where something finally happens, so it would be silly to suddenly ...

    8 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {six}

    Chapter 6 Anne did not desire the following day to start, but it began without her consent when the sun rose and dappled her linen curtain with apologetic rays. Wiping ...

    14 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {seven}

    Written in a terrible rush, and it sure as heck shows. But I needed to churn something out, however crappy, to keep me sane. Chapter 7 It was with a ...

    7 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {eight}

    Chapter 8 The memory of the journey to Beaufort Mansion was set deep in Anne’s marrow, such was the cruel penetration of the cold embedded in her skin. She waited ...

    12 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {nine}

    Chapter 9 Anne’s crinoline skirts were completely spattered in blood. She was hunched over the deplorable figure of her mother, sprawled over the bed, sweat glistening on her forehead. Quickly, ...

    10 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {ten}

    A bit of a short chapter, but I had to get something at as I left you all on that cliffhanger, and I've vowed to post one chapter each day ...

    5 min read
  • Tipping The Velvet {twelve}

    Chapter 12 Thick, foul-smelling smoke twisted frenetically out of the pristine black funnel, engulfing everything in a melancholy sheet of grey. Soft bright vapour came up against hard black ironwork,

    9 min read


Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux (One must imagine Sisyphus happy).
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus