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Short Stories

2024

Bubbles of thought (Death anthology, Pure Slush)

The Red Shoes (Flying Solo Anthology, July)

 

Peacock Feathers (Impspired, Volume 13, January)

2023

Ram Raids, a motorbike and a song (Fictive Dream, December)

My bonnie lies over the ocean (Fictive Dream, March)

Honey-Bee and the Word Girl (Becoming, January)

 
2022

Twisted sisters and neighbouring nasties (Love in the time of Covid, February)

2021

Twisted sisters and neighbouring nasties (The Chamber Magazine, October)

2020

The night of the Goddess (The Blue Nib, August).

The skin that separates water and air (The Blue Nib, January)

2019

Always the Cerrado (Potato Soup Journal, July)

Florentina wants to be a writer (Unlikely Stories, June)

The red Ferrari (Fictive Dream, April)

When the bough breaks (Connotation Press, March)

2018

Pablo's Hair (X-Ray Literary Magazine, November) 

Just an old grey Volkswagen (Words For the Wild, October)

Reflections (Fairlight Books, August)

The colour of sunshine (Fictive Dream, August)

The stone (100 voices for 100 years, May, UK)

2017

The man in the moon (Fictive Dream, December)

The tinkling of the camel’s bell (Fictive Dream, November)

The passionfruit tree (Fictive Dream, October) 

Mary Splayfoot (Fictive Dream, September)

Pelorus Jack (Meniscus, 5.1, July) 

 

Sticks and stones (Fictive Dream, June)

Favouretta Pratt (Fictive Dream, May) 

Night flying (Fictive Dream, April) 

The Last Footwear Company (Fictive Dream, January) 

2016

When the wind blows (Headland 8, December)

2015

The crow (extract from novel-in-progress, Landfall 229, New Zealand, May) 

2014

The ice slide (extract from novel-in-progress, Landfall 228, New Zealand, November)

2013

Sunlight on water (Text Journal issue 21: The Australasian Association of Writing Programs)

2011

The red T-shirt (Social Alternatives, University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Queensland, Australia, October)

The stone (International Literary Quarterly, April) 

2007

Autumn leaves (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

The stone (The Best New Zealand Fiction 4, Random House, New Zealand)

2006

The stone (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

2003

The red bandanna (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

1999

Bernado’s car (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

Dona Antonia (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

1997

The season for burning (Takahe, New Zealand)

1989

Gul (Sport, New Zealand)

1988

Will you walk into my parlour (top ten of Manawatu Evening Standard Short Story Competition, published by MES, New Zealand)

1984

The refuge (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

Something infinite (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand) 

1983

Echoes (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

A north country tale (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

Corridors (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

1982

Something infinite (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

1981

The Reunion (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

The Pond (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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