Westley Vaillancourt

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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“TV Dinner” by Westley Vaillancourt

Submitted to Contest #31

Your laughter breaks my heart. You’re curled up on the left side of the couch, criss-cross-apple-sauce on the plaid cushions, waiting for me to join you for an episode of Saturday Night Live. We’ve watched and rewatched the tapes dozens of times over the years, but to you, they’ve never gotten any less funny. I set two plates on the counter. You found them in a thrift store when you were six, toddling over to show me with a big old grin on your chubby, happy little face.  Mommy Mommy Mommy look! It’s Snoopy! Today, I might as well be co...

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“I, In Memoriam” by Westley Vaillancourt

Submitted to Contest #30

I have been bored for an eternity.  The years have blended together so that I can barely remember how long it has been, or even how I died. I was young; I know that much, somewhere in the overlap between child and adulthood. My recollection of my death changes day by day. One day I see my ribs crushed beneath a cherry-red sports car; the next hear the maddening beep of monitors, the next feel cold steel jammed under my chin. I do not even remember if I was a boy, or a girl, or neither. I think I had short hair, and I have a hazy recolle...

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Author bio

Westley Vaillancourt is the pseudonym of a morbid young queer powered by jelly beans, New Wave and an intense phobia of the dark. Westley enjoys writing - and reading - tales of the supernatural, the paranormal, and the generally macabre.