“What’s your name?” “Where are you from?” “What do you do?” “Where do you live?” The four questions that start every new conversation in Hong Kong. It’s how I first started talking to Sofia as well. Sofia, with whom I was supposed to have dinner last Tuesday, but who blew me off again at the [...]
We were sitting in one of the many impossibly cosy cafés, drinking one of the numerous bottles of red wine we ordered that weekend, when Claire suddenly broke the spell with her talk about ground rules. “Rules for what exactly?” “This weekend was amazing, right?” “Yes, it was.” “And I would really like to see [...]
My transition from single lesbian to long-distance cougar lover did not go as smoothly as getting on a train to Paris would suggest. When Claire invited me to visit her, I didn’t even consider the possibility of it ever becoming anything remotely serious. I was twenty-three and she was forty-nine, or, to put it more [...]