Dreamless [via Amigo Westbrook Remix]

by Joel McCaffery

Winnie Kilpins and Wanago Easton are a ruse in tandem. A romantic and writerly duo who believe nobody can decipher the cryptic mesh behind their deviant verbal tryst, they write in diffusing styles: Winnie, like an eleven-year-old boy searching for answers from his dreams, and Wanago, like a madman, affording no extra words to take away from the spare economy of his one-track dementia. But if you look deeply, they connect. They concoct. They spin-oh how they spin! By perverse yarns of dreamy realism they weave back and forth and in and out and between their own stories, playing on the delicious allegory that their tale is one and the same. How Peanut is placed, how Jemima is schemed, how the Gubberment looms, how Old Cooch is pawned and reborn, and how the eleven-year-old and his father end up being the drawn-and-quartered scapegoats that wrap these two bloodlusted authors in a twine of immorality-it’s all the same story.

You only need to look at how these two sign off from their tales to see how to read of them is to pull yourself down into the depths of their mutual narrative, and like these two, Winnie Kilpins and Wanago Easton, you will end up fornicating by their words and drowning in the smothering globs of their irascible sin. What will be written next, I wonder.


The via Amigo Westbrook Remix by Joel McCaffery is licensed under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia licence. It is a derivative work of Amigo Westbrook’s Remix of Kim Wilkins’s CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia licensed story. The original is available at http://www.remixmylit.com/storiesremixes/dreamless-by-kim-wilkins/ and Amigo Westbrook’s Remix is available at http://www.remixmylit.com/storiesremixes/dreamless-remixed-by-amigo-westbrook/. For details on how you can reuse the original and the remixes see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/