True Stories: married gay man
DISCREET AND CONFIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERS
The Rising Water of a Shared Life: Notes from a Married Gay Man in Victoria
I have a job that asks me to wait. As a tide gauge technician, I sit in a small instrument…
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The Anticipation of Tuesday Mornings
There is a specific quality to the light in Adelaide during early spring that I have only recently learned to…
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The Waiting Interval
The first Monday of the month, Peter Whitfield makes coffee he doesn’t drink. It’s a ritual he stumbled into three…
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The Gift of a Late Hour
I saw the dragon last Tuesday. Not the real one, the one they flew over the city. The Herald ran…
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The Refractive Index of a Sunday Evening: One Married Gay Man in Brisbane Finds His Orbit
The light in this room changes at 3:47 PM every day from March through June. I know this because I…
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The Man Who Counts the Minutes Until 3 PM
Jonathan has stopped wearing his wristwatch. Not because he lost it, or because it broke, but because he no longer…
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The Geometry of Light in the Weekend
There is a particular quality to the light in Newcastle on a Saturday morning in late spring, and I have…
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The Anticipation of a Second Life
The City as Witness The Lister Block at dusk holds a particular quality of light that Julian has come to…
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The Air Between Two Lives
The air quality index hit 346 last Fourth of July. According to the Washington Post, that made our city the…
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The Geometry of a Tuesday
The kunanyi/Mount Wellington road was closed again. A cold front had dusted the summit overnight, and the morning news carried…
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