Category: 2015

1 | 2 Fire Food   out of fire comes food blackened and burnt: transformed not by measured touch of pipe or wire instead by a hot and barely controllable sinuous dancer, one who assumes you like tasty morsels encased in charcoal       Kristina Jensen considers herself a…

The Gossip Killings   The awkward shape of the hunting party emerged from a misty cloud of rain into the dull dusk light. At first, all I heard was my mother’s painful moan but as the procession moved near, I saw the slung form on the back of my father’s horse…

Come over   We could cook and stare and eat awhile, smoke with the sky, incensed, watch the darkness watch the ocean in me changes direction.   We will not be the first We will not be the first We will not be the first   to seek the light…

Why the Pākehā Have No Fairies   Few know that the very first and last European fairy to land on the shores of Petone beach did so in the arms of a five-year-old girl. Her name was Caroline Petherick and she called her oak sprite Oaky. His real name, if…

Roots   ‘Ludwina.’ On the verge of slumber she heard her name. She looked back, to the right and back again. Why did it happen every time her eyes shut? She could not expect the air hostess who had just passed by, in a peacock-patterned outfit, to know her name.…

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