Saraid Taylor

Saraid Taylor is a writer, poet and athlete who grew up on Wurundjeri land. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) from the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne. She is the winner of the 2021 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. You can find her at: www.saraidtaylor.com.

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Published in Overland Issue 246 Autumn 2022 · Prizes

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Winner, the labeller

Saraid Taylor

I am in a world of women and they are everything. That is why I carry the labeller with me, so I can allocate each woman to their rightful place. It is a secret thing, the labeller, small enough to hide in the palm of my hand or tuck into the front flap of a basketball bag. It prints little tags of invisible plastic that adhere neatly to the forehead. Sometimes, after I have slept with someone, and they already have a forehead label, I glue the new classification over their breasts while they sleep. Other times, I just stick over it. The label is soft in its rigidity.