Biography

In 1981 this unfortunate planet was cursed with a ghastly abomination named Zed (sort of). She supposedly grew up near Carlisle in England and her tertiary education took place at the universities of Cambridge, Kent, York, Melbourne and St Andrews. She currently resides in her realm of birth, where she is working on several novels and doing an A Level in Psychology by distance learning. Her past employment has included reviewing goth festivals and stalking piano teachers. A pictorial account of the life and trials of this fiend can be found here.

As well as writing, going to lots of universities and talking about herself in the third person, she likes metal, spikes, travelling, playing guitar, boring films, Fair Trade Fudge, late night conversation, Scouse accents and little else, since during her time in Yorkshire, she picked up the local custom of never being too happy. She has countless wives, no pets and four pairs of very large boots.


Influences On Recent Writing

AC/DC, Aisle, Ancient Rites, And The Waves Choke The Wind, Arch Enemy, Poppy Z. Brite, Burzum, Children Of Bodom, Choronzon, Susanna Clark, Lois Duncan, Drudkh, Enslaved, Exodus, "Goodbye Lenin", "Grange Hill", The Brothers Grimm, C. Hardjasa, Joanne Harris, Werner Herzog, Killing Joke, The Kovenant, Milan Kundera, Rachel Lichtenstein, "Lilya 4-Ever", Joan Lingard, Magazine, Marilyn Manson, Mayhem, The Meads Of Asphodel, Haruki Murakami, Munch, My Angel, New Model Army, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, "The Others", Pantera, Philip Pullman, Photopia, Picasso, Rameses, Adam Rapp, Catriona S, Sheep On Drugs, Dodie Smith, The Smiths, The Space Under The Window, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Neil Strauss, Venom, Irvine Welsh, Windir.


Better Juvenilia

Holding On (1997, 8K)
Now I Don't Know (1998, 51K)
Create And Destroy (1999, poem)
High Rising (1999, 9K)
The Supermarket (1999, 7K)
The Dying Pensioner (1999, poem)
Double Fault (1999, 277K)
Along Comes Mary (1999, 24K)
Vignette (2000, 8K)
Playground Love (2002, 19K)
Without You (2002, poem)
Home (2003, 7K)
The Railway (2005, 17K)
Final Resting Place (2007, 9K)
Carnage (2008, 10K)
The Man In The Kitchen (2008, 13K)

Journal & Photos

Portland (2002, 11K)
A Finno-Baltic Odyssey (2006, 49K)
Metal Fairy Cometh (2007, 226K)
The Saucepan Of Abraham (2008, 108K)


Silliness

Klefid (1997, choose your own adventure)
Blood Tears (1998, poem)
The Sorted Hat (2001, 4K, fanfiction)
The Sponge, The Tower, The Accountant And His Lover (2008, 18K)


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