Cabbage Pie, for Grushenka
All through the book I was asking, where is Grushenka? What is Grushenka doing?
Hints and Hacks, part 1
Advice on how to live, not in the grand moral sense, but in the culturally-specific, fine-grained day-to-day battle of being clean, organised, socially correct and efficient.
Running up that hill
Like many athletic late-bloomers I had to overcome the trauma of school sports before I could start willingly moving my body for fitness reasons.
The millennial urge to take photos of
Emergent themes
In Fine Fettle
It’s a well-trodden path to write a list of rare words you’d like to see in common usage.
Drinking coffee and taking my clothes off
Diary of a clapped middle-aged lady still selling her ass
monster.co.ck
Lewd and stupid, read at your own risk!
And yet she lives
The death and life of Anne Greene.
Supp Dawg
As the wellness industry has drifted from neoliberal to hard right, I am given pause to reflect on my own history with supplements.
Forever Hans
We all owe Clever Hans an apology.
Prince Caspian (part one)
Having an unearthly beauty is something else entirely, and in my experience the way you know you have it is that people keep trying to give you things.
Homeowner's Disease
I always thought I’d die renting so the process of buying property was something I was completely unprepared for.
The Last Camgirl
Speculative (?) fiction based on the minutiae of being an online sex worker in the 2010s.
Let's Get It Together
Things we should own communally: Computer printers. One of the great scams of our time.
Fake Skylight
I don’t believe in God but I think we’re here to help each other and cats are here to protect us from ghosts.
The Big Ō
Once a year I have to go to Ōtautahi Christchurch for work. This is not traditionally a place of thriving for me.
Interpersonal mystery
There’s a type of guy online who apparently thinks and talks about little else other than how much sex women are having.
