Taylor vvestmacott
Bio
Taylor is a screenwriter and novelist who lives and works on Kaurna land.
https://linktr.ee/taylorvvestmacott
Stories (11/0)
The Son Also Rises
UPON SOME SUMMER SOLSTICE BAKTASIO had been taken by his father to discover his first bullfight. A sickly, pallid child, Baktasio had spent most his life indoors, underneath the words of others, shaded and oppressed. In wetter seasons his consumption was its worst. For long periods midwinter Baktasio was struck by bouts of sweat, hunger, and vomiting, by silence, fatigue, and the failing of his sight.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Fiction
The Debtonation
THE PACKAGE WAS PLACED, out in the open, on a table, inside of a shopping mall, near an escalator, in a food court, interrupting a conversation between three people, one of whom was male, bald, and of a palid complexion. He had eyes which jittered: from one woman to the other.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Fiction
Literature Review: 3 Novels
One forgets that people sometimes write extraordinary novels. If you're a committed reader: Difficult, even with close relationships to academics, librarians, book clubs, readers—streams or boards and all that dribble—to shimmy through the lacklustre, the good, the great, and to find amongst them a contemporary novel which is, in your own trivial instantaneous terms, a literary masterpiece.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Geeks
Coriander Man: It Came From Outer Space
This story contains a stylistic representation of an Australian dialect which does not conform to Vocal's editorial standards. The author would like to thank the Vocal editing staff for making an exception in this unusual case.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Horror
The Catastrophic Brain Function
i. WAKE ME UP IN SOMEPLACE NEW. Those were the words of my only living relative my grandpa now deceased. He fell asleep in the backseat of a car we used to have, which I have left behind, its spare tyre having burst a flat not far from the fallen town of Yuddaburra, in the outback of Australia.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Fiction
Exeter, Stage Right
This linear work is curated word-for-word from journals, poems, and reflections written before and during my 2019 exchange trip to the University of Exeter. This is not a work of fiction. Emphasis, grammar, and all changes in font represent the genuine documents.
By Taylor vvestmacott3 years ago in Journal