This Fragile Filament
This little string we have – this little line between you and me – it’s fragile. The internet is an amazing thing: for all the data available, and the fun and the wealth of knowledge that even ten years ago was out of most people’s reach. But for me, the most valuable thing about the […]
Dark, Bittersweet & Sexy as Hell
“You keep me here, locked away, not knowing I do the same to you. So which of us is the monster?” Ordinarily, I don’t read romances and Love Unfortunate is most definitely a romance, but a truly twisted one. There is a brilliant lushness to Claudia D. Christian‘s language and a constant subtextual tension that […]
Three Kisses
1. I climbed silently onto the bed while you were drowsing and stealthily crouched over you until my mouth was a hair’s breadth away from yours. I looked down for a long time at your closed eyes, dreams shifting them beneath your lids. I brought my hands up, resting them softly on either side of […]
Book Review: Incognito by Lisabet Sarai
It might have crossed your mind that these days, I’m finding fiction elusive. It’s not that I don’t have stories to tell – I do. It’s that I can’t seem to find the passion to tell them at the moment. I have a lot of unfinished stories, and every time I put pen to paper, […]
Worth your Time
Every so often, you run across something quite beautiful. I was lucky enough to meet Karl James as @2plus2makes5 on twitter and take the time to look at his site. Karl is director of something called the Dialogue Project – a pretty amazing organisation. I won’t attempt to describe it. Better you go to the […]
Things I don’t Know
It seems the more I post discussion blogs on writing, feelings, relationships or sex, the more emails I get from people who think I’m some kind of expert in any of those areas. I can’t say it’s not flattering to get those sorts of emails, but they also come with a lot of responsibility and, […]
Desiring the Unobtainable
Well, I got halfway through writing a short story and realized, with the help of a friend, that it was mostly shit. This always depresses me. Especially 4,000 words in. However…it was crap. So I’m going to have to suck it up. In the meantime, I’ve noticed recently that I’ve been running into a lot […]
The Stand In
The shoulders were about right, she thought. The height – perhaps he was an inch or two shorter – but that didn’t matter for much. Weight is something she’d never been good at estimating but perhaps this man was carrying just a little more muscle than was ideal. Giving her drink a clockwise quarter turn, […]
#nightpoetry
Probing the idea of you the tongue tip of my mind traces your borders, elevations the salinity of your essence the rough gravel of the voice I’ll never hear the magnetic north I’ll never reach the bitter aftertaste of absence the cavity in my brain huge and hurtful, ever present the land I cannot traverse […]
Feminism, Sex Work and The Big Wide World
I once had a commenter accuse me of being a sex tourist because I wrote about the sex workers in Bangkok. Because I didn’t condemn it, or belittle them, or rail about the men who used their services. Now, Elly writes about a movement of ‘feminists’ in the UK who spend their fundraised money fighting […]