Blog Posts’ Category

Worth your Time

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Every so often, you run across something quite beautiful. I was lucky enough to meet Karl James as @2plus2makes5 on [...]

Things I don’t Know

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

It seems the more I post discussion blogs on writing, feelings, relationships or sex, the more emails I get from [...]

Desiring the Unobtainable

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Well, I got halfway through writing a short story and realized, with the help of a friend, that it was [...]

The Stand In

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The shoulders were about right, she thought. The height – perhaps he was an inch or two shorter – but [...]

#nightpoetry

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Probing the idea of you the tongue tip of my mind traces your borders, elevations the salinity of your essence [...]

Feminism, Sex Work and The Big Wide World

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

I once had a commenter accuse me of being a sex tourist because I wrote about the sex workers in [...]

Intention

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Kiss me, but not absently without yearning for the touch of my lips or the scent of my skin. Touch [...]

The Vibrator Controversy

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

I rarely weigh in on these sorts of discussions because, for the most part, I think people should do what [...]

Monsoonish

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

under a sky the colour of asphyxia wet heat tugs at my limbs minutes are hours wanting gnaws away at [...]

The Kindness of Strangers

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? Hamlet, Act II, Scene 1 I wish [...]

The Uncomfortable Truth about Kink

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

I have to thank @quietriot_girl for prompting this post. We had a short exchange on twitter about it. She has [...]

Lockdown Day

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

When I was a child, my grandmother taught me the world was a kind place. And I believed her, because [...]

Infusion

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Pungent dried petals crushed and crumbled into my skin. My palm flat against my chest grinding the blossoms into my [...]

The Civic Body – Turkish Baths

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Read any amount of my work and you’ll notice water as a recurring theme: as a metaphor, a sensory element, [...]

You Can’t Go Back to Constantinople

Monday, June 7th, 2010

This blog is going to be a bit quiet for a while because I’m traveling in Turkey and Jordan. I’ll [...]

Carrier

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

On the cracked benches of dusty railway stations, in the populated sterility of airport lounges, termini or sanctuary, in motion [...]

Encroachment

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Ghostly shadow mice nibble away and the edges of my perception. Their scurrying sounds bitten off consonants of words once [...]

Guest Post: Kitty Thomas on ‘Comfort Food’

Monday, May 31st, 2010

My name is Kitty Thomas and I write what I classify as “dark literary erotica.” I appreciate Remittance Girl giving [...]

The Madwoman of Thu Duc – Part 11

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Through the branches of the tamarind trees, the light played dappled games with the surface of the pool at the [...]

The Madwoman of Thu Duc – Part 10

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

I should tell you that I resisted, shouldn’t I? That when Etienne pushed me to the foot of the bed [...]