Two dads, a baby, one wannabe-Janis hippychick .....

Image credit: Alex Reece Abbott

MONUMENTAL

An Aunty Draws a Blank and in Desperation Channels Iggy Pop

The Last Time, my flash fiction about sheep-farming and life .....

THE LAST TIME

My flash fiction, The Kotiro, the Kuia and the Sea is in the Moana/Ocean themed issue of Flash Frontier. Warning: story may feature a taniwha.

Photo credit: Alex Reece Abbott

The Kōtiro, the Kuia and the Sea

My short fiction, Knife-a-geddon

KNIFE A GEDDON

“Kāpia is its own thing. Hold it to the light…the things revealed to you…”

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TOKA

A fragrant autumnal story, This Passing World .....

Photo: Alex Reece Abbott 2024

THIS PASSING WORLD

Gumfield Wāhine, Round Houhora Way. An ekphratic flash fiction.

Photograph: Woman with a shovel and gum spear by Arthur James Northwood used with kind permission of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.

Gumfield Wāhine, Round Houhora Way

My story about New Year resolutions, Without Warning, Birds Fall.

Without Warning, Birds Fall