Shelley Jackson

American writer and artist known for experimental and hypertext fiction, notably the 1995 hypertext novel Patchwork Girl and the distributed tattoo story Skin.

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  1. 1. Riddance

    Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children

    Eleven-year-old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, is invited to study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school appears to cure speech impediments but the Headmistress pioneers necrophysics, training students to channel ghostly voices from the land of the dead. When a student disappears and parents and police notice, the story unfolds through necrophysics writings, the Headmistress's dispatches, and Jane's role as stenographer and central figure in the school's future.

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