I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t…

The material on this website was found in a flat abandoned by Mark Woodward, soon after the turn of the century. Mark has not been heard from since. It consists of two short novels in manuscript form, apparently complete, and a notebook. The notebook contains the author’s notes, odd fragments from the novels, and reactions from a handful of people who read the work as it was in progress. None of the text has been edited, but the handwritten notes have been transcribed.

When the novels were written, they were intended for publication. The drawer in which they were found also contained a batch of rejection letters from publishers and agents. A sentence from one of these letters has been copied into the notebook, with an almost illegible comment scribbled above it:

The material is presented as it was found. Nothing has been revised or corrected. Whether it should have been published or not is a judgement only readers can make.