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The city was a great loom weaving its tangles and tufts of people into haphazard multicoloured fabric.

— Patricia Grace Mutuwhenua : the moon sleeps (1978)

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This first part of the story is about two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, who quarrelled over a canoe.

beginning of Dogside Story (2001)

Autumn bends the lights of summer and spreads evening skies with reds and golds. These colours are taken up by falling leaves which jiggle at the fingertips of small-handed winds.

Salt cures.
Sea washes. It cleans.
Expanse enlivens the spirit, frees the mind.

Chappy (2015)

Why is it that one set of stories is called "mythology", and another set of stories is called "the truth"?

Interview (1999)

Learning about each other is not as one-sided as it used to be.

Interview (2016)

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