Pacific

On the internet, on certain websites, there are pictures and videos of a version of me. * Her real name…

Tectonic you  my seismic sibling  in your tectonic tantrum  have unearthed  me  so  i  am  no more parent  to my…

I’ve made plenty of mistakes.   I sent a text to my brother-in-law. It wasn’t meant for him. There were…

‘Your mother’s an ironmonger.’ ‘She is not.’ The word was new to me, but from the way Genevieve said it,…

Waves – the anguish of the sea gods, in pitch black midnight, squirt squalls of salt spray. Its bitterness biting…

I wake on the ward, afloat on ketamine, fentanyl, see sky-blue morphine swifts roost nearby in pleated paper thimbles,  …

Today is a beautiful spring day. Light shimmers on the bark of the gum tree opposite our apartment block and…

Written in response to the Tonga volcano eruption and reaction from the Vanuatu volcanoes

I once did not feel a sense of belonging in Aotearoa. When you belong somewhere, you can plant your feet…

Inky skies glowed blue at the horizon, and the fish and chip shop slouched in the wide main street. One…

Translated from English to Tok Pisin by the author

Translated from Tok Pisin to English by the author

‘The No Sex Thing’ was shortlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   A bride and groom stand at…

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and…

Resistance and Power

‘Carved’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   The moon is uncarved bone. Raw, untouched, smooth like…