True Stories: married gay man
DISCREET AND CONFIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERS
The Cartographer of Quiet Desires
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a house at 4:47 AM. It’s not the heavy silence…
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The Quiet Cartography of a Good Life
Townsville in late August is a city holding its breath. The dry season has polished the sky to a high,…
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The Quiet Geometry of Waiting
There is a particular kind of silence that exists in a Nottingham terraced house on a Tuesday afternoon. It is…
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The Cartography of Longing: A Halifax Story
The fog over the Northwest Arm doesn’t roll in so much as it materializes, a slow erasure of the city’s…
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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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