Patchwork Girl is undoubtedly one of the most successful and ambitious hypertext fictions to date. It consists of 323 lexias ( screens of text ), all of which vary in length and are joined together by electronic links whose main task are to create multiple pathways for the reader to thread through the entire narrative. It is consistent with other texts utilising the same medium, as in, it does not outwardly seem to contain either a beginning or an end. However, it does retain several “conventional” elements of story telling, like characters, settings, flashbacks, shifting points of view, as well as a linear plot or consecutive sequences. What is interesting also, is the fact that Patchwork Girl exhibits a certain level of self-reflexivity about its own medium and the intertextual nature of writing. “Passages from Jacques Derrida’s Disseminations, Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, L.Frank Baum’s The Patchwork Girl of Oz and Barbara Maria Stafford’s Body Criticism are all woven into the fabric of Jackson’s text without visible attribution, creating a pastiche or verbal patchwork, which is continuously juxtaposed to the stitched-together body parts of the monster’s body” ( Clayton, J. ). Despite lacking the “wholesomeness” of a printed text, it still manages to convey its themes across to anyone who dares to venture into this disembodied and disconnected foray of language.