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Painful penetrative sex isn't just a medical symptom. It's a brick wall, a monster, an unwanted third partner in the bed.

I wind down my window at the lights to profess my love to the strangers in the black De Tomaso Pantera. They accommodate me with amused grins.

'I don’t have to worry about being able to keep a roof over my head or food in the fridge, but there’s not much left to save for the future.' ...

A subtle smell is filling our living room as my son crawls around playing with his nana. It has the familiar scent of freshly ...

A year ago I met a lovely older gentleman at a Christmas party who owned racehorses. He wasn’t “in the business”, as he said, ...

We found a home in each other and realised the huge need for many more brown people living in Ōtautahi to have something like ...

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The agreement will ease Palestinians’ suffering, but international agencies will struggle to meet the massive need for humanitarian relief. This is an excerpt from The World Bulletin, our weekly ...

At night the pylons stride across the land, The Friday Poem is edited by Hera Lindsay Bird. Submissions are currently closed.