My short fiction about first jobs, Management Material is in the Retirement volume of the Lifespan series.

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“Kāpia is its own thing. Hold it to the light…the things revealed to you…” My flash fiction, Fifty Thousand Years Ago a Tree Wept Here is out now in Flash ...

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A fragrant autumnal story, This Passing World is out in the Manu/Bird issue of Flash Frontier.

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Photo credit: Alex Reece Abbott

An ekphratic flash fiction ...

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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.

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

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Katherine Mansfield wrote “…the power to live a full, adult life in close contact [with] what I love – the earth and the wonders thereof, the sea, the sun…

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About evocative gardens ....

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IMAGE: White, Purple by Tabatha Forbes

Whooosh! My flash fiction A Femur, A Rib And Two Claws soars to highly commended for NZ Flash Fiction Day.

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Thanks to Oxford Flash Fiction Prize – delighted to be a finalist with ALONG SECTARIAN LINES my flash about memory and loss and A-Class journeys, and how we have more ...

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Photo credit: Les Downey Rail Collection ?1985. Photograph of 13 window carriage, 14-4880. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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