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“Romance” isn’t about the boy or the girl or relationships. It’s a moment. Where you open up and you fall in love with Life all over again. Here are five of mine.   No. 5# Summer, Oxford, England I was finishing up a writing course when I met The Lawyer. …

There’s a single question which hovers above my head. Am I in love or in attachment? Love has been explained to me as wishing someone happiness in their life. Attachment is a need to be with another person. These two ideas have been meshed, squashed and intertwined with each other …

Dinner For Stew  There was once a day, when I tried to dine, At a restaurant, quite the fav’rite of mine. I gazed at the menu, so many morsels, Many of which I had eaten, of coursels. I go there all the time.                                   So imagine my shock when I …

Babyface –  A Poem for Plainwhite Tom You bought me a tomato on our first date. You were the first person I had occupied space with  who didn’t question my love of eating them like apples fallen from trees. You told me Autumn was your favourite season. You felt the greatest …

  Polyphony//If Only You were my modern day manifestation of the lyrics of “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” by Louis Armstrong. I sang it so much that it defeated time and my grandparents caught on and told me with twinkling eyes that it was their favourite song. So …

“Try it again. A little bit louder, Gavin,” called the director from her front row seat, glancing up from her meticulous notes as a scrawny teenager cleared his throat on the stage and looked about again with wide eyes. The older boys in the back found their marks and straightened …

The Aristocrats is a joke that comedians love telling to shock other comedians, so it is extremely graphic and not for the easily offended. I first heard about The Aristocrats from the documentary of the same name, in which the producers went around to different comedians and asked them to …

In a small dingy bar, people from across the town had gathered up after a day’s work for a moment of peace. The next day, many of them were going to elect the new mayor among the two nobles who had been contesting the position for the past 25 years. …

“Tattoos,” said the woman, the glint in her eye ensnaring me, pulling me away from my cafe quietude. I was trapped.  She was beautiful, in an insane sort of way, her hair flung about as wildly as her words in the air. “Excuse me?” I asked, though I knew she …

Madame Defarge pointed at the captured nobleman, a strong aroma of wine clinging to her like an invisible fog. The bloodthirsty crowd around the guillotine was a moving mass of screaming peasants, death on their tongues and weapons in their hands. “Down with the aristocrats!” Defarge declared, and the blade …

It was Grandma with me, and my cousin Nick. Nick is about my age. We walked through the familiar doors of the Club and after the $7.50 pot and parma Grandma retired to the pokies. It had been 45 minutes which I thought was enough time and so Nick and …

Ever since the invention of the cell phone, there’s a shortage of old fashioned pay phones around the city. They disappeared, dinosaurs of an age when we were stuck to a makeshift plastic barrier, pretending we had privacy to make our calls out in the street. The very last one …

Down below the watch tower, the city of New Axe sharpened its focus on the task at hand.Dealing with the criminal element under recent ministerial reforms meant that the eleven houses of law in the justice quarter were working all 27 hours of the day. Hidden caches of gold and …

  James sat before his machine lost in the lights, the repetition, and the plateau high of five straight hours of gambling. The reels came to rest, one-by-one, and for the seventh-straight roll he got nothing. His credit count cycled down to zero – a far cry from where he’d …

“I can’t do this anymore! I can’t live this lie. I’m really not like that – you know I’m not.” Alexei sobbed.\ Fenn laughed quietly. “Always the drama queen eh? ‘Course you can. Been doing it for the whole season. Why would one more match make such a difference?” “Don’t …

During the Republic of Rome the law was a central pillar of society. Court was not only a way to settle disputes but a source of entertainment for the masses. Advocates were not required to learn extensive pieces of law because the law was not written down. Instead oratory was …

The doorbell sounded in the silence of the house. An eerie sound that resembled the bells, made of spent artillery shells, that warned the soldiers on the battle field near Ypres, during World War I, whenever there was a mustard gas attack. It was an often dreaded sound, that announced …

I see a lot of things from my vantage point above the bar.  People come.  People go.  They order drinks and sometimes get drunk.  Sometimes they even drink out of me.  Oh, wait, I forgot to tell you – I’m a wine glass. Yes, I’ve seen a lot of things …