The internet is a menacing place for impressionable minds. Once the innocent home of LimeWire and teenage porn discovery, the realm of cyberspace has evolved…
For a few years I lived in the Trastevere district of Rome. I rode a bicycle to work and bought groceries at the market. I…
The idea of getting stuck in another country terrifies me. Not so much the being overseas bit, but because it brings up memories of me…
Me: Have you ever done cybersex? Him: If it’s essentially getting freaky on FaceTime, then yes. You? Me: Nope. Him: You swear? Me: Oh, shit….
2020: global travel bans, entire fleets of commercial airlines grounded, borders shut, entire cities in lockdown worldwide. Not exactly a great year to be planning…
There is a kind of sexual urgency in the air since human touch became a scarcity. The prospect of a complete lockdown will see single…
Before the Coronavirus pandemic came along and fucked up everyone’s lives, I was living a pretty normal one. I had a full-time job that took…
Last night, we heard screaming. Tucked away in our apartment during quarantine, we wondered what people were doing outside clapping and yelling. Upon looking out…
I read an article once, by a man whose name I cannot remember, which attributed the differences between occidental and oriental cultures to the incidence…
So here I am across the Puget Sound from Seattle – an “epicentre” for COVID-19. A travel writer in lockdown. Schools, libraries, bars, malls, and…
It’s 2pm on a Sunday in March and I’m sitting by the windowsill having my morning coffee. Ordinarily, my morning wouldn’t have started at 2pm,…
I was prepared for one of them to die. Before I left the UK to go travelling, I made a list of family members I…
