In today's episode I talk about an idiotic digital age faux-pas, my mother and codependency in relationships, and how that's not always a bad thing. Longer than the last one!
Let me kno...
2021-06-13 18:11:06 +0000 UTC
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White
I can't keep it clean but I like to wear white. Actually, I can't keep it clean and that's why I like to wear white. White shirts look better with mud on them and white...
2021-06-13 06:23:28 +0000 UTC
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I can count on one hand the number of dates I have been nervous about in my life. The one in eleventh grade when an age-appropriate boy I really liked took me to a movie. The one in Tokyo when I wa...
2021-06-12 08:02:41 +0000 UTC
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Hi Everyone!
Welcome to "But, That's Not My Point," a podcast about love, sex and nonsense.
I decided I wanted to start doing a podcast and this is my first attempt at that....
2021-06-11 17:06:40 +0000 UTC
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I was always a little envious of her. It wasn't because she was prettier than me, even though she was; she had curly black hair that draped her delicate shoulders all the way down to her hips and h...
2021-06-11 13:52:20 +0000 UTC
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I used to wonder, so often—
Am I no good?
Trouble seems to follow me around.
I disguise myself in respectability and all ...
2021-06-11 05:24:25 +0000 UTC
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"What's that on your wrist?" He asked getting into the driver's seat and pointing at my hand, "Is that..garter?"
I laughed before I explained.
"No, not garter. It's the ripped out end...
2021-06-10 16:51:54 +0000 UTC
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I can hear them talking but I can't respond. I would have but the toe of his boot is stuck inside my mouth and I'd much rather use my tongue to lick it clean than make chit chat. It fascinates me t...
2021-06-10 09:41:05 +0000 UTC
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I was still lying naked in bed, recovering from his last teasing touche before he left for the day, when the bell rang. Hoping it was just the garbage man and he'd pick up the trash that was alread...
2021-06-10 09:17:01 +0000 UTC
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My favorite parts of books are all worn out because I revisit those pages so often. I'm the same way with memories. The best of mine are like worn pages from my favorite books, and being with her i...
2021-06-10 08:53:23 +0000 UTC
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...the short answer is, you don't.
One of the most important things I learnt from my last relationship was that you can give away your right to say no b...
2021-06-10 08:50:59 +0000 UTC
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"What are you thinking?" He asked.
It's a question we avoid in our house these days. It's just one of those phases in life, there is so much going on and nobody knows how to handle somethin...
2021-06-10 08:46:48 +0000 UTC
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I crawled towards the bowl. I couldn't get up off the floor because my leg was chained to the metal screen. It looked a little like my yoga bars, or a very sturdy ladder. There wasn't enough slack ...
2021-06-10 08:44:14 +0000 UTC
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"Come here."
Immediately my fingers hooked themselves into the straps of my bra and I began to take it off.
"I said come here, not undress," he said gritting his teeth, "What are yo...
2021-06-10 08:42:09 +0000 UTC
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His fingers linger,
Over the purple imprints on my arm.
He doesn't say anything,
And I continue to gaze out of the window,
as if I don't notice that he's stroking the thumb ...
2021-06-10 08:40:15 +0000 UTC
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A quiet evening after a quiet day. It may not have been quiet on the outside but some days I feel so quiet on the inside. It's as if the people inside me have all left; like a dormitory during summ...
2021-06-10 08:38:33 +0000 UTC
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Every time I look at the watch, I tell myself he'll come the next time the big arrow points to twelve. I know it's stupid. We all make schedules with round figures in them but things rarely happen ...
2021-06-10 08:35:08 +0000 UTC
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'6 PM
Naked and on your knees.
Leave the door unlocked.'
I'd been reading that text message all day long. As if looking at it continuously would make it more acceptable or make it disa...
2021-06-10 08:32:40 +0000 UTC
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I wasn't supposed to be in town that night but my flights got mixed up and there I was. Obviously I was dying to see him again. Dying. I hadn't been taken with someone like that in..ever. I'd never...
2021-06-10 08:30:01 +0000 UTC
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My ex and I had a dynamic built entirely on me not having the right to say no. Clutch your pearls tighter, unbunch your panties, get over yourself and yes, that's what it was....
2021-06-10 08:27:24 +0000 UTC
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I had been lying there so long the rug was beginning to hurt my back. I could feel the impressions it would leave on my skin and I wondered, in fleeting thoughts, if I should start buying softer ru...
2021-06-10 08:22:43 +0000 UTC
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"Why are you looking at me like that?" He asked looking away from the highway and at me instead.
"Like what?" I asked in my refrain, lifting my head from my arm and looking away a little.
2021-06-10 08:19:53 +0000 UTC
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She's mad, but she's magic.
She laughs too loud, and before you know it there's tears in the corner of her eye.
She smiles wide but there is a profound sadness in the pout of her bott...
2021-06-10 06:48:59 +0000 UTC
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"I want to bludgeon her to death," she said glaring at the object of her wrath on a computer screen, "Just take a giant rock and..."
It was surprising. Not that she harboured intense detesta...
2021-06-10 06:45:08 +0000 UTC
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When I first suggested blue lights in the bedroom he cocked up his eyebrow and looked at me like I had gone insane.
"But blue is surreal," I told him.
He didn't understand b...
2021-06-10 06:40:18 +0000 UTC
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"Go to the other room and wait for me," he said urging me off the edge of our bed.
"Yes master."
We recently shifted our bedroom from one room to the other. The other room is cosier...
2021-06-10 06:35:54 +0000 UTC
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Whip bites.
Fists fall.
Leather meets skin.
I want to scream but it's stuck like the memory of a hair in my throat.
It's not really there.
But I remember it being...
2021-06-10 06:33:42 +0000 UTC
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Some time ago I wrote something about being a sex worker. To be specific, what I wrote was about one particular client but it also detailed my personal experience of being a sex worker. Now I becam...
2021-06-10 05:40:00 +0000 UTC
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It's dark outside. It has to be because the clock says it's well past nine. It doesn't matter though. It doesn't matter that the sun comes up every morning and children scurry away to school with g...
2021-06-10 05:33:39 +0000 UTC
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He never takes me out to dinner. I buy all these pretty clothes and most of the time I just end up wearing them around the house to make myself feel fancy. He never even takes me out for coffee. Bu...
2021-06-10 04:13:31 +0000 UTC
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