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Short Stories

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2024

Bubbles of thought (Death anthology, Pure Slush)

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The Red Shoes (Flying Solo Anthology, July)

 

Peacock Feathers (Impspired, Volume 13, January)

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2023

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

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

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

 
2022

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

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2021

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

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2020

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

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

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2019

Always the Cerrado (Potato Soup Journal, July)

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

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The red Ferrari (Fictive Dream, April)

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When the bough breaks (Connotation Press, March)

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2018

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

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

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Reflections (Fairlight Books, August)

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The colour of sunshine (Fictive Dream, August)

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

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2017

The man in the moon (Fictive Dream, December)

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

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The passionfruit tree (Fictive Dream, October) 

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Mary Splayfoot (Fictive Dream, September)

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Pelorus Jack (Meniscus, 5.1, July) 

 

Sticks and stones (Fictive Dream, June)

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Favouretta Pratt (Fictive Dream, May) 

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Night flying (Fictive Dream, April) 

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The Last Footwear Company (Fictive Dream, January) 

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2016

When the wind blows (Headland 8, December)

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2015

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

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2014

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

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2013

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

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2011

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

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The stone (International Literary Quarterly, April) 

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2007

Autumn leaves (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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

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2006

The stone (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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2003

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

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1999

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

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Dona Antonia (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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1997

The season for burning (Takahe, New Zealand)

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1989

Gul (Sport, New Zealand)

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1988

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

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1984

The refuge (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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Something infinite (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand) 

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1983

Echoes (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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

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Corridors (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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1982

Something infinite (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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1981

The Reunion (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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The Pond (Radio New Zealand National, New Zealand)

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