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

Garden of Paradise, Redux about gardens ......

About – TABATHA FORBES

GARDEN OF PARADISE, REDUX

My homage to Katherine Mansfield, child of the sun ....

By Alex Reece Abbott

Child of the Sun

My conversation with author Iona Winter about Iona’s Elixir & Star 2023 Grief Almanac – a liminal gathering, grief, suicide bereavement and living with the absence of loved ones.

Image: ‘True’ by Kaye Winter, as appeared in a liminal gathering 2023. Photo Credit: Iona Winter.

Writing the Last Taboo