If social media is to be believed, every healthy couple is permanently trapped in a montage sequence. They’re kissing on beaches, laughing over wine, climbing into spas together, posting anniversary tributes every second week and behaving as though the honeymoon period never ended. Their lives appear fuelled by constant passion and relentless emotional intensity. The
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The proof copy of SEETHINGS III arrived with less excitement than the first novel, replacing wonder with familiarity, discipline, and exhaustion. What once felt impossible had become routine. This reflective piece explores the strange emotional shift that occurs when finishing a trilogy—and how creative passion slowly transforms into endurance.
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An affair built purely on sex begins to fracture when validation becomes more addictive than intimacy itself. She didn’t love him. She barely liked him. Yet his refusal to say “I love you” consumed her completely. Beneath the lust, ego, control, insecurity, and emotional dependency quietly took over everything.
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Writing often looks quiet from the outside, but beneath the silence a writer is building worlds, dissecting emotions, and wrestling private thoughts into stories. Private creative time is not avoidance or selfishness—it is the fragile psychological space where imagination survives long enough to become something meaningful, intimate, and disturbingly honest.
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Before the first book was written, came a small writing life on MySpace (see below this red text). It was called “Captain’s Log” and was intended to chronicle my new life at sea. The marriage was nearing its end, and so I moved from the land to the water. It was a big step. I
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Two amateur photographers expected an afternoon beside the Logan River to end with landscape shots and fading light. Instead, hidden among dense Australian grassland, they discovered something far darker. Police descended on the riverbank as rumours spread, cameras rolled, and a quiet patch of Queensland transformed into a breaking national story.
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At the southern edge of Western Australia, Albany feels isolated, weathered, and unforgettable. Cold oceans, shifting storms, rugged coastlines, and a haunting quietness give the town an atmosphere unlike anywhere else in Australia. Some places invite tourists. Others linger in memory long after the road home disappears behind you.
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I remember those fishing days like it was yesterday. Dear Dad would fire up his old Seagull outboard late on Friday afternoon, which told me that the weekend was about to be filled with watery expectations. A test run was always done in a tall bin, half-filled with water, on our driveway. The engine burbled
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