Spiders and Flies

Sexual adventurism and bondage are not the domain of the extravagantly rich and unbelievably beautiful. These games are played by ordinary people, living right next door. That pretty young woman across from you in the café as you decide between eggs and pancakes. The middle aged man you chat to as you both walk your dogs in the park. They are engaged in an escalating game of lust, perversion and torment, all in the pursuit of that most elusive of intrigues, love.

Sexual adventurism and bondage are not the domain of the extravagantly rich and unbelievably beautiful. These games are played by ordinary people, living right next door. That pretty young woman across from you in the café as you decide between eggs and pancakes. The middle aged man you chat to as you both walk your dogs in the park. They are engaged in an escalating game of lust, perversion and torment, all in the pursuit of that most elusive of intrigues, love. Carol is a 33 year old woman with a satisfying job and a boyfriend she loves, but she yearns for something more. Something wrong. Alan is in his late forties, successful and married, contented with his twenty first century life. Their lives intersect at a party in the heart of Melbourne’s riverside district and they instinctively descend into a web of depravity and sexual what ifs that lead to evitable consequences.

Born in London in 1971, Lily Thomas has lived in Melbourne all her adult life. Fifteen years driving her own taxi exposed Lily to a pretty broad view of Melbourne life. An amateur photographer, she is now running a small lounge bar in South Melbourne. Working nights, Lily spends her daylight hours putting her experiences of Melbourne’s people into words.