The Last Slice: In The Kitchen

August 15, 2012 in Fiction, Friendship, Relationships, Sex

“The Last Slice” is a short fiction serial about the customers and staff of the The Last Slice Cafe. In her kitchen Cat could hear everything. Not all at once, but depending on where she stood, she knew that she could focus on specific conversations. It was the weird acoustics of the kitchen that had been the reason she had decided this was the place where she wanted to start her cafe. Normally this made her feel part of the cafe’s life. Even though she couldn’t see anything from the kitchen, she could hear the customers and staff discussing the food she [...]

Who Owns Your Body? (A question about monogamy)

May 22, 2012 in Dating, Marriage, People, Relationships, Sex, Sexuality, Society

I’m guessing that most people reading this post are happy being monogamous, or at least that’s what we’d admit to. Yes, some people are swingers and some people have affairs, but these practices are generally frowned upon by the general population. And yet a quick search on the web and you will find a plethora of surveys stating different statistics for the number of people who’ve had an affair at some point, some of them as high as 80% (though most sit around 30%, which seems more realistic). Chances are, despite the general feeling that monogamy is something to strive for, [...]

Love: Loving too much. Loving too easily.

March 9, 2012 in Dating, Relationships, Self

Love. Amour. Liebe. Amore. No matter how you say it, chances are you have loved somebody at sometime. Maybe you have loved many people. Maybe you have been lucky enough to have found the love of your life at first go. I’ve been in love a few times. I still remember how much I was in love with my first girlfriend. I was 20, she was 19. We were each other’s first love. It was perfect…except…she was Greek and had an exceptionally conservative (and violent) traditional Greek father who thought all Australians (meaning Anglo-Celtics) were lazy and expected his daughter [...]