Crushed Blossom

All That Glitters

Duke Goes Joyriding

Competing Interests

Drive (Going to Graceland)
Reno looks back at 2009 while in a Greyhound bus with screaming children and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

A Talent For Shipwrecks
Channeling Matthew Arnold, Zara Potts contemplates the turbid ebb and flow of the sea.

Go Gentle Into That Good Night

A Box Full of Evil and Fifteen Balloons
This is how the new year begins - not with a bang, but a bunch of balloons.

My Old Man and The Sea

My Losing Year
Zara Potts reflects on the rocky path of a nasty relationship break-up.

Laughing All the Way Down

Being David Bowie
Why being David Bowie is never a good career choice. Especially when you're a girl.

Fraidy Cat
Zara Potts is terrorised in turn by mountain-climbing cannibals, singing Australian transvestites and a madman who wears a hollowed out goat's head. Welcome to her childhood.

Take Your Swiss Ball and Shove it up Your Ass

Friday Night Fail

You Probably Don’t Know This, But I’ve Had a Crush on You for About Thirty Years
Zara Potts runs into her lifelong crush in the street. It's awkward. She asks for his number. She loses it. Huh.

‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for Remembrance.’

A Thousand Words: The End of Summer
Childhood isn't all bad. Zara Potts takes a bare-foot stroll down memory lane where the only worry is what kind of ice cream flavour to choose. Aww.

Does It Hurt?

I Nearly Married a Stranger
How snooping in secret journals can lead you down the bridal path. Part two of a story where Zara falls in love with the wrong person. Again.

Don’t Judge a Journal by its Cover
Zara Potts is so desperate to rate a mention in a stranger\'s journal that she goes ahead and falls in love with him even though he is not her type.

Miss Ellie and My Sister’s Breast

“But I Always Carry a Kitchen Knife…”
One pretty girl. One asshole narcissist. 216 stab wounds. Zara Potts looks at a crime that shocked New Zealand.

The Silk Parachute