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

A story about Te Hokioi, a giant, man-eating raptor in New Zealand.

The image to illustrate this post was first used here.

A Femur, A Rib And Two Claws

Along Sectarian Lines - my flash about memory and loss and A-Class journeys.

ALONG SECTARIAN LINES

Pav Deconstructed: Pavlova through the eyes of everyday Kiwis

SWEET! PAVLOVA’S UP