CONTENTS

Tessa Castree

Double Chocolate

 

Holly Edgecombe

On the Road to a Miracle (excerpt)

 

Liz Elson

Egg on his Face

 

Anahera Gildea

The Queen’s Chain

 

Mandy Hager

Resurrection: Blood of the Lamb Book Three (excerpt)

 

Mennie Scapens

Sorting Things Out

 

Tony Yuile

Deadly Obsession (excerpt)

 

 

 

Renée

Dear Grandmother

Tall Woman in a Frame

The Entrance

 

Michele Amas

What did you do

 

Tusiata Avia

Nafanua’s Sister thinks about Nafanua in America

 

Jane Blaikie

Good grief

 

Bronwyn Bryant

What to do When the Lights Go Out

 

Kate Camp

My heart goes out

 

Kay Corns

Freestyle

 

Mary-Jane Duffy

Suddenly the Lake

Those things you don’t understand

 

Mathew Stephen Gorrie

An Ear for Post-Impressionism

 

Helen Heath

Justine

 

Adrienne Jansen

Lost in translation

Loving our kids

The door

Lynn Jenner

The moment of joining

 

Karen Peterson Butterworth

Tongueprints

 

Vivienne Plumb

Doggie Bones

Intercity

Smiley Face

 

Maggie Rainey-Smith

Love in the Fifties

 

Tina Regtien

wendy has an artist friend

 

Lorraine Singh

Anna’s Cat

Peter

 

Elizabeth Smither

Amy brings the thesaurus

 

Robert Stratford

A week on the Coast

Pākehā funeral letter

The Bogan and the Brethren Girl

 

Jo Thorpe

Remain in Light

The Practice of Loving

Twilight and Melancholies

 

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

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