Table of Contents

Contents include: 1. Janis Freegard : The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider and Other Tales -- Mr Li's Spectacles -- Cafe Tales -- Lament of an Old Punk -- The Liking -- City Living -- Task -- Family Day at the Seaside -- Coping with Terracotta -- Animal Tales -- The Last Great Beehive in Willis Street -- Anemone -- Little Blue -- Trichotillomania -- The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider: A selection -- Alice in the eighties: The Wellington Years -- Alice Does It -- Alice Goes To An Art Gallery -- Alice goes to the Cemetery -- Alice and the Grocery Shopping -- Alice Spider discovers Surrealism -- Alice Gets Away from it all. 2. Katherine Liddy: Artefacts Exhibiting Love -- Bronze Age Fairytale -- Minotaur -- Dido on Aeneas -- Want -- Delphi -- Hysterical Abbess, Remiront 1566 -- The Painter's Wife -- Victorian Letters -- Incident in the Tournament of Shadows -- Day of the Defence of the Fatherland -- Insomniac -- Young Couple Before the Abortion -- Perfume Ad -- Out of Sight -- Swallow -- 'The Rainbow Connection' 3. Reihana Robinson: Waiting for the Palangi -- Thinking of my Father -- Humility -- Pour ma maman -- Noa Noa makes breakfast ... -- Will there be no Great Thai restaurants -- Discard the World... -- Missing -- Waiting for the Palangi -- elevator ride -- Waiting for the Palangi (Part 2) -- A Hum for Pitkern -- Truth Lies in all latitudes -- Malediction -- M(alaise) -- Fait Accompli -- "Huzzah for Otaheite" -- Hors de combat -- Tama-ki-te-Rangi -- Queensland Star -- Flume -- A Close Shave -- Taxa-tortoise -- Lub-be -- Denouement.

Links

http://janisfreegard.wordpress.com/

http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/

About the Author

Janis Freegard was born in South Shields, England, but has lived in New Zealand most of her life. She has a science degree from The University of Auckland, with Honours from Victoria University of Wellington. Her work was included in AUP New Poets 3 (2008) and, also a prose writer, she won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competition in 2001.