The Crush Taxonomy
I tweeted about a funny guy crush. A friend asked what other kind there was and challenged me to write a list.
Romance
On Being ‘In Like’ With Someone
You like them. It’s not love. At least not yet. It’s a possibility. A probability? Too early to say.
Donny and Ursula Save The World – Sharon Weil: A Love Story For Naturalists & Conspiracy Theorists
Donny and Ursula Save the World by Sharon WeilMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A quirky little novel that manages to touch on several large issues – the danger of commercializing agriculture, the importance of orgasms, Mother Earth’s good housekeeping, conspiracy theories. And in the midst of all this is…
Can we please stop calling it ‘dating’ because Indians don’t do that word
No, we don’t. We claim kinship to members of the opposite sex, exchange gifts on a designated day of the year and occasionally append a ‘bhaiyya’ or ‘didi’ to their names. We hang around in bunches when we’re in college and pretend we’re not specifically there for one person. When…
Strangelove
#Ideastory is a tag that I use to post 140 character story bits onto Twitter. My mood was Strangelove today and here are the tales I told: ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ I’m tired of romance, she says, it’s what men use to bribe me into bed.Fine, he says, wanna fuck then eat the…
Sept Shorts06: All The World’s A Stage
The Bard was right. All the world really is a stage.
Books | Fiction | Pop Culture | Relationships
Sept Shorts04: Book Lovers
A romance between the pages for book lovers.
The Friendship Frisson
I like to call it a frisson in friendship, not even something important enough to merit beginning with capitals and being preceded with a ‘the’
A Comfortable Close
“I like this”, she says, “I like us.”“We are a comfortable close.” And she smiles at the picture on her screen one last time before switching it off.
Book Review: Love Rehab by Jo Piazza
Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps by Jo PiazzaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars Since ChickLit, there’s been a host of books in a new genre I’m going to call ‘This is not ChickLit’. Love Rehab is one of this type. It is about relationships and there is romance,…