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Narrative nonfiction

Hug your fence

Hug your fence

To rent is to be free from the disquiet of such expensive trivia as insurance, rates and household maintenance. But pets are an issue. Once my wife Vic and I purchase our own house, a wee fifties place in Paraparaumu, Vic wastes no time starting a menagerie. To most people,

Negotiating the canal

Negotiating the canal

We’re not people who’ll eat a placenta but we will place a couple on ice in a chest freezer. One for us, and one for a friend whose freezer is too small to accommodate both meat and out-of-use human organs. My wife Vic and I might be considered

Toothbrushes and minimalism

Toothbrushes and minimalism

When minimalism takes the form of a quiet and simple campaign of manipulation

Neck deep in margarine

Neck deep in margarine

Here may enter a new catchphrase for unbridled joy, to supplant the old crass one about pigs in shit

Kick me in the face

Kick me in the face

The first ambulance was for someone else, but the second was for me

DIY: Nemesis

DIY: Nemesis

For some, DIY is naught but a spectrum of disasters

Kihap! like you mean it

Kihap! like you mean it

Exclamation marks, the gravitas of the taekwondo kihap, and a stray bird