John Christopher (née Vaughan) is a writer from Dublin disguised as a Kitchen Porter working in London. He is always looking for work.
John Christopher
Because I am not dead I change quite a lot and so my writing changes, too, which is just the way I like it. Language is my material; I shape it and in turn am shaped.
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A version of this essay was published in Another magazine. Read it at the link below.
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Taken from Collapse, the final section of my final major project, THRALL. This section is preceded by three essays, Convulsions, Levitation, and Ecstasy. My FMP was an attempt to express the experience of thraldom.
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Taken from my final major project, THRALL. This is the first section, followed by Levitation, Ecstasy, and Collapse.
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— Georges Bataille quote, scribbles, doodle of Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) falling down
Bataille, doodles & scribbles
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Podcast series created by students from my class, for which I wrote and recorded two short pieces: 'The Boys' and 'Fever Dream'. Listen to them at the link