Venue:Terminus Hotel, Victoria St, Abbotsford
Stimuli: A mobile invite, toasty comfort, animated banter over a bowl of shoe-string fries
Response: Laughs and suggestions of re-enactment. Delectable!
Venue: Victoria St, Richmond
Stimulus: Desperate sentimentality from once-loved partner
Responses: Eyes wandered from bowl of beef pho to busy road outside, quesy from this untimely outburst, then slightly guilty afterwards
Venue: Tusk, Chapel St, Windsor
Stimulus: A bad deed rewarded
Response: With a good one
Venue: Moonlight Receptions, Nicholson St, North Fitzroy (yikes)
Stimuli: Geisha prom queens - tiara and tafetta, too many bottles of very cheap grenache-cabernet.
Response: Cruel mockery, playground-style
Venue: Home
Stimulus: Morning-after reflections
Response: Resolution - never again
Venue: Rob Roy Hotel, Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Stimulus: An experienced voice
Reaction: Silence, of thoughts and words