Monthly Archives: June 2012

Two Cups of Tea: collaboration with Lola Elvy

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

I wrote this story with my daughter. It was first written for 52|250: A Year of Flash and then published at Thunderclap! Press. I’m re-posting this here as a part of the Aotearoa Affair Blog Fest’s June/July Blog Carnival FLASH ACROSS BORDERS. … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Poem: ‘picking up feathers’ by Kay McKenzie Cooke

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

You want to make things – sew a home-made skirt from my green pinny, make me a herb garden – which you achieved on one of our more windless autumn days before you both left, you and my son pushing … Continue reading →

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2012 Short Story Collab #7 & #8

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Collaborative Stories #7 and #8 are the final two stories in a process that started back in March in honour of International Women’s Month. I began by writing the first 100 words of a story and then sending it to two other … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Poem which is Tuesday Flash: ‘BOMB’ by Sian Williams

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

I am honoured to be the Guest Editor at the Tuesday Poem hub this week, and since it’s National Flash Fiction Day here in New Zealand on Friday, 22 June 2012, we are posting short short stories alongside poems. The … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Poem: ‘Inheritance’ by Tim Jones

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Thread the needle. Through you, pinnacle, pedestal, surge those who went before. Recombine the dust of generations. Carve initials into the ever tree. Darn the threadbare patterning. Tie off, cast off. A signature, a lifetime in four letters. * Tim … Continue reading →

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2012 Short Story Collab #5 & #6

Posted on June 9, 2012 by

THIS post is now part of the TRANSLATION ISSUE of the Language/Place Blog Carnival, edited by Steve Wing. Collaborative Stories #5 and #6 are both posted here to show the divergent paths the stories took when sent off to a … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Poem: ‘Cactus’ by Siobhan Harvey

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

No snags, I promise, simply a gift so that we might part smoothly, our points of difference buried. The distance between two spikes might once have measured our connection, an infinite world of tenderness there. But now, it’s enough that … Continue reading →

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