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  • Infectiousness
    by angelwanderer
    Sunlight fills the heartA smile warms the quiet dayJoy blooms in bright eyes
  • Tangalooma For Sun, Sea and Loved-Up Couples and Families
    by Kurdaitcha
    Mitchell Felding sails to Tangalooma, where sunlit beaches and holiday crowds give way to a darker game of loneliness, resentment and opportunity. Watching couples from offshore, he spots women who feel ignored or trapped, offers them sympathy, and takes what he wants beneath the stars—then asks whether anyone is hurt.
  • Duyfken Visits Mandurah. Historic Replica Ship Comes to My Hometown.
    by angelwanderer
    The Duyfken visited Scarborough marina around twenty years ago. Recently, I saw her in Mandurah, passing through the canals. The ship holds historical significance, as it was the first to record a landing in Australia in 1606. Despite its small size, it represents a bygone era of sailing. [Link to video provided].
  • Women Truly Value Men Who Listen
    by angelwanderer
    A man who listens with care offers a woman the feeling of being heard, understood, and taken seriously. When she shares her fears, hopes, or heartbreak, genuine attention can build trust and closeness. But listening becomes dangerous when concern is merely a way to discover where she is most vulnerable.
  • How Mobile Browsing Changed the Way We Read Content on Websites
    by angelwanderer
    From tiny phone screens and awkward desktop pages to responsive design, RSS and AMP, I look back at how mobile browsing changed the way we read online. I share my own attempt to duplicate my site for mobile readers, and why every page must make its words easy to reach.
  • Limitations of Renewables and Second Thoughts About Their Future
    by angelwanderer
    Michael questions whether renewable energy is as clean, durable and self-sustaining as its promise suggests. From solar panels and wind turbines to coal-powered manufacturing, recycling and the appetite for electricity, he weighs the hidden costs behind the green transition—and wonders whether replacing one energy problem may simply create another.
  • Have You Ever Been Caught Doing Something You Wish You Hadn’t?
    by angelwanderer
    I committed a beach offence: I turned my back on the ocean to write while looking at hills. My daughter-in-law judged the act a betrayal, then returned to it months later. What followed revealed less about the sea than about anger, insecurity, family tension and the limits of my patience.
  • Bravest Bec
    by angelwanderer
    Closed eyes hide the painA memory stirs softlyAnd stillness returns
  • We Top Up Our Pool With Rainwater From a Tank
    by angelwanderer
    After a hefty summer water bill, we found a practical way to top up our pool with rainwater. Two slimline tanks collect runoff from the garage roof, feeding excess water to the pool and the garden. They cannot carry us through summer, but they help reduce our utility bill significantly.
  • The Agony of A Sexless Marriage is Real
    by angelwanderer
    A sexless marriage can leave one partner feeling rejected, lonely and trapped in a cycle of hope and disappointment. Michael Forman examines why intimacy fades, why advice often misses the pain, and the difficult questions couples face when one wants to rebuild what the other no longer seems to want.
  • Erotica For Regular People For Men and Women
    by Kurdaitcha
    Erotica isn’t reserved for secretive or unusual readers. Ordinary adults use intimate fiction to explore desire, fantasy, vulnerability and danger safely. From romantic encounters to Michael Forman’s darker noirotica, these stories reveal character, complicate relationships and prove that curiosity about passion is an entirely normal part of the human experience.
  • In Loving Memory of Desire: Eulogy Of a Sexless Marriage
    by angelwanderer
    Mitchell and Samantha once shared passion, tenderness and private dreams. Now routine, silence and avoidance have buried the desire that held them close. This eulogy mourns what their marriage has lost, remembers the intimacy that once flourished, and wonders whether love can revive what neglect has slowly laid to rest.
  • Unveiling the Sleeper Killer: A Unique Anomaly in Crime Fiction
    by angelwanderer
    What if a killer had no criminal history, recognisable behaviour or reason to strike again? A sleeper killer commits one seemingly random murder, then disappears into ordinary life. This dark-fiction anomaly leaves investigators without patterns and readers questioning every pleasant neighbour, faithful partner and harmless stranger they thought they understood.
  • Unexplained Disappearances On Oceans When Sailing
    by angelwanderer
    Solo sailing offers serenity, freedom and the unsettling knowledge that anything can happen beyond sight of land. Recalling a dangerous coastal voyage through Queensland’s Wide Bay Bar, Michael considers the isolation, fear and psychological endurance of life at sea—and how those experiences shaped the dark oceanic mystery of SEETHINGS II.
  • EyeFul
    by angelwanderer
    The veil slipped aside.My eyes kept what they had seen;words faced the other way. -M
  • No, the Earth Is Not Flat: A Sarcastic Guide to the Obvious
    by angelwanderer
    Flat Earthers dismiss satellite images, astronomy, gravity and centuries of measurement, then offer ice walls, nearby suns and government conspiracies instead. With sarcasm fully engaged, Michael tests their favourite claims against simple science and discovers that the planet’s curve is far easier to prove than their enormous international cover-up story.
  • Discovering the Outback: A Journey into Australia’s Desolate Beauty
    by angelwanderer
    Australia’s vast interior once felt like a place reserved for farmers and filmmakers. Then two journeys into the Outback revealed its immense skies, seasonal grey nomads and profound isolation. Beyond coastal routines and city noise, the desert offers something rare: space to breathe, listen and hear the land’s ancient heartbeat.
  • The Animal That Reconstructs Reality After Destroying It
    by Kurdaitcha
    Humans rarely leave reality untouched. We break apart rocks, atoms, DNA, laws, morals and ideas, convinced we can rebuild them better. Sometimes we cure disease; sometimes we create new dangers. Mitchell Felding considers humanity’s existential hammer—and our stubborn belief that every broken thing can always be reconstructed without lasting consequence.
  • Baked Beans on Toast
    Sometimes, All I Want Is Beans On Toast
    by angelwanderer
    After a season of Turducken, roast dinners, desserts and expanding waistlines, I eventually crave the simplest possible meal: beans on toast. It requires no culinary theatre, rescues my taste buds and restores my sanity. Great food is wonderful, but sometimes humble beans are precisely what my jeans need most desperately.
  • Longer Search Console Gaps Mean More URL Processing? The Numbers On My Site Are Revealing
    by angelwanderer
    I thought longer waits for Google Search Console’s Page Indexing reports meant Google was processing more URLs. The records show a strong correlation, but also sharp contradictions. I compare receipt gaps with activity across all indexing buckets and explain what the figures can—and cannot—tell me about my ongoing SEO work.
  • The Lower-Desire Partner in a Sexless Marriage: The Hidden Side of Rejection
    by angelwanderer
    What does a sexless marriage feel like to the lower-desire partner? This article examines lost desire, pressure, responsive arousal, duty sex and the satisfaction gap between spouses. Drawing on personal accounts and relationship research, it explores how two people can be hurting for entirely different reasons inside the same marriage.
  • Tanfastic
    by angelwanderer
    Pale lines divide bronzeSummer lingers on warm skinClothes remember shade
  • Pinterest Interest for Writers: It Once Sent Me 1,500 Readers a Month—Is It Still Worth It?
    by angelwanderer
    Pinterest once sent 1,500 monthly visitors to my author website, powered by 25,000 pins about storms, photography, sailing and dark fiction. The platform still offers discovery and analytics tools, but its declining return raises a harder question for writers: is Pinterest worth the time required to make it work today?
  • Moreton Bay: Glamour, Catamaran Sailing, and Dark Secrets in Raby Bay
    by angelwanderer
    Money, glamour and murder begin gathering around a Raby Bay canal home and a sixty-foot catamaran. Michael imagines the woman who might command it: a beautiful doctor, skilled sailor and fertility specialist with secrets. Felicity Snow has not quite arrived, but the first unsettling pieces of her character are forming.
  • Equality in Nipple Exposure: Rethinking Social Media Censorship
    by angelwanderer
    Why are male nipples acceptable on social media while female nipples trigger censorship? Drawing on my experience as a photographer, I question the double standard surrounding nudity, art, breastfeeding and bans. If equality matters, perhaps platforms should treat every nipple alike—or remove the lot and be done with it.
  • Metaphorical Writing Devices Used in SEETHINGS
    by angelwanderer
    Windows, doors and rain are more than scenery in SEETHINGS. Each marks a change in character, tension or perception, building quietly until a sliding glass door shatters. Michael Forman explains how repeated imagery, careful rewriting and atmospheric pressure transformed ordinary objects into active parts of his dark psychological thriller narrative.
  • Backyard Chickens and Fresh Eggs: A Simple Step Towards Sustainable Living
    by angelwanderer
    At our coastal home, writing dark fiction shares space with beehives, visiting birds and backyard chickens. Using leftover renovation materials, Margo and I built a secure chook pen and welcomed our new laying hens. Now we’re waiting for their first small, richly flavoured homegrown eggs to arrive for breakfast soon.
  • Hidden Secrets: Double SIM Tricks and Games of Deception
    by angelwanderer
    Linda and Anthony hide their affair inside second SIM cards, swapping identities before anyone can trace their secret messages. Her suspicious husband checks the phone daily and finds nothing. She watches him search, pleased by the deception. But objects carry dangerous truths, and every hidden thing can eventually be found.
  • Windy Wendy
    by angelwanderer
    Soft zephyr passescool fingers across my face—summer breathes hello.
  • Money Shot? Why Do So Many Girls Accept This Disgusting Sex Act?
    by angelwanderer
    Natasha questions why men expect money-shot endings, while Mitchell promises something different during an approaching thunderstorm. Their provocative exchange becomes an intimate moment drawn from SEETHINGS II, where desire, danger and deception converge. She is Nina DeJong’s daughter, but Mitchell cannot resist the unsettling resemblance to his lost former lover.
  • An Open Letter to People Who Write Open Letters
    by angelwanderer
    If your letter is published online and shared across social media, it is already open. Michael Forman delivers a blunt, funny rebuke to writers who insist on stating the obvious, dismantling the tired “open letter” label and urging everyone to stop wasting words—and get back to work instead now.
  • 3 Times Mankind Predicted the Future and Got it Very Wrong
    by angelwanderer
    Human history is littered with confident predictions that aged badly. From powered flight to the iPhone and women running marathons, certainty repeatedly surrendered to reality. Progress proved the experts wrong, improved lives and created fresh problems—because mankind rarely knows as much as it thinks it does.
  • Is Your Cheating Spouse Planning to Disappear?
    by angelwanderer
    Every year, people disappear without explanation. Some meet with accident, violence or misfortune. Others plan their escape, quietly abandoning marriages, debts and identities for another life. But when an unfaithful person vanishes, carefully cultivated lies create the perfect confusion—and the perfect opportunity for a patient predator to strike unseen.
  • Should Couples Agree on Sex Quotas Before Marriage?
    by angelwanderer
    Should engaged couples discuss how often they expect sex after marriage? A quota cannot guarantee desire, and no signature provides permanent consent. Yet avoiding the subject can conceal serious incompatibility. An honest conversation about intimacy, changing circumstances and what happens when desire fades may protect both partners from future pain.
  • When SEETHINGS Finally Found Its Name
    by angelwanderer
    Before SEETHINGS had a name, it wore several others while I rewrote the manuscript, tested cover designs, and listened to readers. This old announcement takes me back to the moment everything finally clicked together: the title, the cover, and the nervous joy of publishing a story entirely on my own.
  • Somer’s Sun
    by angelwanderer
    Bare back to the sunWarm fingers wander my skinSummer settles in
  • “You Are So Predictable”: When Years of Marital Resentment Finally Explode
    by angelwanderer
    A marriage reaches its breaking point through coffee, wet towels, forgotten dinners and years of accumulated grievances. Neither partner feels heard, and every defence sharpens the next accusation. When their smallest conflicts finally expose a long-sexless marriage, one final sentence reveals who has been speaking—and why the argument really matters.
  • Loving Her from Afar: A Story of Shyness and Unspoken Love
    by Kurdaitcha
    From the shelter of the trees, he watches Charlene cross the creek and bathe in dappled light. His love is tender, silent and deeply conflicted. Shyness keeps him hidden, but adoration cannot excuse intrusion. Between wonder and shame, he must confront what his silence has allowed him to quietly become.
  • My New Trailer Is Finished
    by angelwanderer
    A new book trailer? Not quite. This time, the trailer is for my boat. After years of registration limbo, missing paperwork and delicate family politics, I finally replaced the old beast with something new. Now the nonsense can stay ashore while Margo and I get back to fishing together again.
  • Mitchell and Nina: A Fairy Tale First Time Story
    by angelwanderer
    Mitchell and Nina cherish their first intimate encounter, despite its uncertainties. Their young love and tenderness unfold in this podcast. For more details, read Michael Forman’s free novel, SEETHINGS, acclaimed for its artful writing style and vivid portrayal of the protagonist’s thoughts. (Word count: 50)

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