I locked eyes with a stranger crossing the street and felt the blast of pure eros | Brigid Delaney

Chance encounters, serendipity, the glint in the eye - as we open up from lockdown, they're back baby!

It was June 2020, really early in the morning, still dark around the edges, and I was crossing the big intersection at Spencer and Bourke streets in Melbourne.

I was half asleep and the only people around were tradies. At the other end of the crossing, I locked eyes with one of them and, out of nowhere, suddenly felt weak with lust.