An actor prepares.

Holding Pattern by Scott Limbrick

Read by Aaron Wilson.

Synopsis

Ever wondered what it’s like to go inside the life of a stock photo character? Wonder no more! Holding Pattern forces us into the uncomfortable shoes of Victor, an actor, aspiring screenwriter, and dutiful son who’s sure he’s being catfished.  

Hilarious, entertaining, unsettling, just a few of the stock adjectives we might apply to Scott Limbrick’s Holding Pattern. 

Originally published in Going Down Swinging

Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning. 

About Scott Limbrick

Scott Limbrick is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction and elsewhere. He has previously been the recipient of the Frank Moorhouse Fellowship and the Felix Meyer Scholarship, won the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition and been shortlisted for the Richell Prize. He currently has multiple screenplays in development with funding from VicScreen and Screen Australia. 

scottlimbrick.com

Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.