True Stories: mistress
DISCREET AND CONFIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERS
The Geography of a Secret: A Mistress in Atlanta
The Weight of a Tuesday Afternoon She doesn’t look at her phone between two and three in the afternoon. That’s…
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The Cartography of Absence: One Woman’s Map of a Secret Life in Bristol
She doesn’t wait well. That’s the first thing you should know about Saskia. She has never been good at patience,…
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The Geometry of Waiting
She arrives early, as she always does. Not because she’s eager, though there’s that, but because anticipation has its own…
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The Invisible Coordinates of Desire
There is a specific quality to the Winnipeg winter light in late January. It doesn’t illuminate so much as it…
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The Key to the Dress Circle: A Mistress in Brisbane on the Luxury of Being Chosen
Some women collect secrets like others collect keys. Elena’s key ring holds a brass skeleton key from an antique market…
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The 5:48 to LoDo: On Being the Other Woman in a City That Knows How to Keep Secrets
The text came at 5:48 PM on a Tuesday, during the part of the afternoon when Denver’s light turns the…
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The Museum of Afternoons
She has never quite believed in the arithmetic of a life. The adding up of years, the balancing of accounts,…
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The Architecture of a Parallel Life: Reflections from a Mistress in Mississauga
I read about the data centre town hall last week. According to the Mississauga News, the room overflowed with residents…
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The Geography of the Afternoon
She has learned to read the city by its silences. Not the deep, oceanic quiet of a foggy morning, but…
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The Luxury of Being Second: A Mistress in Liverpool on Choice and Silence
I don’t know if I chose this life or if it chose me. What I know is that I own…
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