Taylor Gray Moore

Writer of fiction, poetry, etc - based in Vancouver BC

November 26, 2023
2023-12-11 11:25 There’s something intensely cruel about shift work. I know what I said about kvetching, and I’m really trying to write about something else, but you’d be shocked (those of you who don’t work a labour job, at least) by how much this sort of work dominates your time and energy. Today, for example, I’m exhausted from having worked two shifts in a row going from 4pm-11:30pm, which kept me up late, and then I have this one day off before I go back to work a shift that starts at 7am, which will get me...
November 25, 2023
2023-12-11 11:22 Got a ride home from a very late shift last night, read in bed and then woke up slowly this morning. Made breakfast, with what feels like a twisted ankle, then came up and finished copying out the hand-written edits of the first chapter of the novella I want to finish.   It’s a nice day out; I’m waiting for the album that’s playing (You Forgot It in People) to finish, and then I’m going out for a walk. I think I’ll go down to the bog, which is lovely in the late autumn, something mystical and ...
This will eventually be a writing blog
2023-12-10 13:10   This will eventually be a writing blog   But there's nothing here yet. I'm just setting up the template and, because I don't really know how to set up a website, I'm doing that slowly. I already accidentally deleted the thing once, and I don't want to do anything awful again.    This "scribbles" subpage (blog; the website builder app calls it a blog) will become the home of all my social media posts, the poems and the excerpts and the little diary entries and etc. I wa...
November 23, 2023
2023-11-23 12:29   November 23, 2023   Slightly slower day, lovely weather. In a moment of relaxation, having a cold drink and being with the silence in a basement room in the house I was raised in, looking across at a photo of a youthful queen, an empty bottle of white Bordeaux, an old telephone and a concertina.   There are days like this on which these moments of nothing are of value.
November 22, 2023
2023-11-22 13:36   November 22, 2023   Writing on the SkyTrain after work again—that seems to be a good time for me. The end of a day, I’m slightly exhausted, I can review things and I’m too spent to get distracted by much. I put in earbuds and here I go.   Of course, I’m also too spent to do much more than a stream-of-consciousness ramble. Pros and cons.   I am drained. Retail work at a busy and chaotic store is a miserable way to spend a life, even with good benefits. People get sucked into it, often en...
November 21, 2023
2023-11-21 23:41   November 21, 2023 In the interest of building a social media presence, I am going to try to post new stuff online on a regular basis from now on. I’m doing this now, because I’m going to Expozine in Montreal in a week, and I want to actually have a web presence I can direct people too, and maybe even a web page, so that when people follow the link on the cards I’m getting made they will actually arrive somewhere.   I won't say I'll do this once a day, because that's a promise I...