[photo source] I can’t help but notice him as he boards the already crowded 112 tram in the city. Someone gives him a hand hoisting the pram up the stairs. They place it down just at the top, directly in the doorway. There is nowhere else for him to go. I stand in the […]
I suppose Courtney Love was to blame. On many prior evenings, I had made this very trip from my small country town home to Melbourne. I was seeing a boy who wasn’t nearly as invested in the “relationship” as I was, and I could not get enough of how bad I felt about myself […]
If you must know, I was tooling around on my phone when I should have been watching them. So from that perspective, it is probably my fault. I’m the mother. No doubt future therapy will reveal it was all my fault. But in my defence, I never could have predicted my children would almost […]
[Photo Source] I wonder does she kiss them goodbye before she goes? No, that would be too hard. And after all, she is just going for milk. Maybe she holds them a little more closely the night before as she tucks them into bed, takes their little faces in her shaking hands, trying to memorise […]
Yes, there are chapters. Yes, it's that long. Sorry, I'm a writer and this is the best story I've ever told – and it's all true….. Chapter One It was a Friday like any other. I woke excited about my appointment with the obstetrician. She would be confirming whether I’d be proceeding with the […]
Thursday I was at the beautician requesting a Brazilian that wasn't really a Brazilian but rather was the neatness of a Brazilian mixed with the modesty of a 1970s muff. It was important to get the balance right. "Just nothing porno," I said and she nodded like she knew exactly what I was on about. […]
I'm not entirely sure what caused the confusion. Perhaps it was the post-caesarean sledgehammer affect, the fog of morphine. I know it definitely didn't help that on his tiny head he wore a beanie that I knew didn't belong to me. But there was no mistaking the look she gave me when I approached, unsure, […]
This is the worst dating story I ever heard. Which also makes it the best. My friend picked up a high-flying foreigner and went back to his hotel for a one night stand. He was very sexy and charming. So far, so good. Some time during their hay roll, he headed south and asked "give […]
