What’s your favourite story from childhood? Can it ever be spoiled?

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Title: Spoiler Alert: One Thousand and One Nights.

Warning: story may feature a taniwha ....

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Funny Ugly Little Baby

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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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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.

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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