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Filling My Senses

It’s getting warmer here in Australia, Spring slowly rolling into Summer. The rosellas are flirty, all coy glances and side shimmies towards each other, working out who they’re going to fly away with. More skin is being bared in town as bikinis and boardies reappear after winter’s chill. Sand sugars calves, bellies and shoulders, enticing me [...]

The First Time

I’ll always remember my first time: My first official eyebrow grooming, my induction into the ladies elite society of vanity— when my mom cradled my head in her lap, a pair of tweezers poised above me. And my legs slant across the bed in a waning afternoon sunshine, the breeze from my brother’s bedroom window [...]

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