Isaac Thornton likes to tell people that he is a writer and a teacher. This statement, which is a small lie, does seem to distract them from the truth: that he is little more than a moneyless student. He first fell in love with the written word at the age of nine and has since written numerous short horror stories and, in the past six months, a small suite of poems. He has also started work on his first novel, influenced by the writing of both Franz Kafka and Edgar Allen Poe, but you should not hold your breath for it.