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Objectify Me
I’ve never been an object of true desire. Certainly men have admired how I look; they have commented on my breasts, my ass, my eyes. But I’ve never been wanted. My first memory of being objectified was when I was 12. Walking home from school, a man at a construction site whistled at me and…
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Let’s Write about Sex, Baby
When I was interviewed on a podcast a few months ago, the podcaster asked me “why do you write erotica? You could write about anything.” He had been complimenting me on my writing. Erotica and erotic audio were new to him and he was surprised at the quality of work he had encountered (I think…
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Delicate
I was driving for a couple of hours recently and a song came on my shuffle: “Delicate” by Damien Rice. It’s a slow, sweet song about how tender – delicate – a new relationship can be, how the two people take things slowly and quietly. There’s a question in the chorus about what it all might…
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At Sunset
It has been a season of ups and downs for me. Tonight I was walking my dog through my vibrant neighbourhood. I walked by kids speaking Farsi; a group of women in lawn chairs on their driveway, drinking coolers and watching their kids play pickleball and blow bubbles in the street; a family of bikers,…
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Now Is The Time
It was a weekend filled with a lot of emotions. We learned a well known member of the VA community has died. We watched fires continue to burn threatening indigenous communities. We watched people being kidnapped by masked enforcement officers. We watched a nation protest a president who fashions himself a dictator. We learned of…
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Screenshots
I should be writing something else right now, but my phone has prompted me to clean out my photos – noting that the number of screenshots is in the thousands – so I started to delete some things. Doing so was like opening a time capsule of the last few years of my life. I…
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The Messy Middle
She sits down with her coffee in the morning and makes a list. Weed garden, do dishes, get groceries, get your shit together, the list says. The list represents all of the things she will do when she is fully recovered. When she tells you it has been a hard couple of years, she is…
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Let Everything Happen
It’s a major tenet of Buddhism, as I understand it, that suffering is caused by resistance. Accept what is happening to and around you, and move in strength from there. So often your brain tells you “No, it can’t be true that X is happening,” when in fact, X is very much happening. X is…
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The Author Is Shocked!
I’m a spicy creator and I’m used to talking about and thinking about sex. But it wasn’t always that way. As the child of Boomer parents, I grew up knowing what sex was, but having very few conversations with my parents about it. My dad was an early adopter, so had to own a Laserdisk…
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The Thousand Things
Remember Tumblr? It was the first social media for many of us. I got to see the pretty pictures and the poetry, but luckily skipped the drama. I couldn’t tell you who wrote it or what the rest of the poem said, but this line from a Tumblr post stays with me even all these…
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