Closure Is Your Own Secret Recipe
I learnt something about closure
Map Of Emotion
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
Airport Trip
I’m sitting in a stranger’s house, on someone’s white sofa, in a room filled with quirky, colourful touches of some unknown mind’s whims. I’m listening to a band jammig. The bass guitarist is a friend. I don’t know the other three boys though I’ve met the singer once. The band…
My Looks Are Not Your Excuse
I wasn’t a pretty child. Oily skin, stringy hair, gangly long limbs. Then puberty came along, and like a fairy godmother, bestowed me with a complete makeover. Suddenly I had the passport into BabeLand. That was an eon ago, long enough anyway to make me wonder whether the fairy godmother…
Just Chemistry
Sex and romance and all of that may be purely chemical but well, life is a chemistry lab.
Falling Lessons
I had Judo lessons where they taught us to fall correctly & not hurt ourselves. How come no one ever told us about falling in love safely?
Trust Is A Trapeze Without A Safety Net
A friend asked me yesterday how I would feel if my boyfriend took off on a trip with my best friend. I thought for a bit and said, I trust my best friend implicitly so I think I’d feel a lot safer if my boyfriend went with her rather than…
Palette Of Emotion
I relate to emotion visually. Humiliation is a mottled dark green flecked with brownish-red. Peace is a silvery pool with traces of blue.
A Moral Dilemma: Being PC Gay Ally, Not A Tease
I was preyed on by someone hiding behind the rainbow flag. It made me introspect on what is prejudice and what is instinct. The moral dilemma continues.
Trust, Actually
If I’m a fool to trust you, what does that say about you? ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ Nobody’s born suspicious. We trust because we think other people are the way we are. Then someone hurts us and we think everyone else is that way. Treat every suspicious person you meet, gently. Maybe they’ve…
NovelRace Week 10: Everything But The Novel
This week on Novelrace, I hit on everything but the novel itself. And I’m trying to eke out insights on writing from this bizarre disorientation.