Bonsai : best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan and James Norcliffe.

Machine-generated contents note: Rules / Alex Reece Abbott -- Along the road to the hot rod Beach Hop / Raewyn Alexander -- Woodville revisited / Rosetta Allan -- Documentary / Ivy Alvarez -- Langit ang bubay / Ivy Alvarez -- Four parts blue / Anita Arlov -- The girl who wanted to fly / Sandra Arnold -- Purse-Phone's Christmas / Nick Ascroft -- Meditation / Lynn Tara Austin -- Ain't chicken / Sam Averis -- Gastrolith / Sam Averis -- Nafanua goes to bed with her cousin / Tusiata Avia -- Post-ute / Tusiata Avia -- Rope / Hinemoana Baker -- Lullaby / Sarah Jane Barnett -- Pigeons / Sarah Jane Barnett -- Beach holiday / Airini Beautrais -- Tandem / Airini Beautrais -- It was a teenage wedding / Carrie Beckwith -- Man looking at trees / Jenny Bornholdt -- Climate change lecture / Nola 'Jarrell -- The world needs a plumber / Michael Botur -- Mental health day / Liz Breslin -- Defrost the dog / Sarah Broom -- Bro story / Ben Brown -- Every now and then I have another child / Diane Brown -- Starlings / Pete Carter -- The anti-myth / Janet Charman -- Ironman / S. R. Charters -- Kainga / Madeleine Child -- A bad relationship / Joanna Cho -- She asked me if she took one pill for her heart and one pill for her hips and one pill for her chest and one pill for her blood how come they would all know which part of her body they should go to / Glenn Colquhoun -- White night / Carolyn Cossey -- Still life / Celia Coyne -- Leftovers / Annette Edwards-Hill -- Coming attractions / Anne Else -- Shape shifters on the bus / Nod Ghosh -- Mannykin / Celine Gibson -- The man who kissed his wife / Caroline Crick -- Antarctica / Michelle Elvy -- Geometry / Robyn Gosset -- Shells / Mike Growl -- Beer goggles / Tracy Farr -- Territories/ Anna Granger -- A life lived / Nikki Crutchley -- Seven wishes / Fiona Farrell -- The argument / Paula Green -- Bus stop / Lilla Crorgo -- Rogue trading / Rachel J. Fenton -- The moss on the sycamores ... / Bernadette Hall -- Two sparrows / Makyla Curtis -- Firefighters talking to the siren they are running toward / Joan Fleming -- Hecate's skirt / Trisha Hanifin -- Vive le roi / Morgan Davie -- With our eyes closed we / Trisha Hanifin -- Husband and wife talk without talking at a begin to dance / Joan Fleming -- Schrodinger's cat difficult dinner party / Melanie Dixon -- The moon in a bowl of water / Michael Harlow -- What the science tells us / Melanie Dixon -- Alex and David / Anna Forsyth -- After the neighbours disappear / Siobhan Harvey -- The smell of it all / Allan Drew -- Doors / Janis Freegard -- Borrowing Anne Sexton's attire / Siobban Harvey -- Islands and cities / Sarah Dunn -- Elephant / Janis Freegard -- She and her first best boyfriend / Dinah Hawken -- Optimism / Lynley Edmeades -- My son is turning black / Nod Ghosh -- I ate my brother / Helen Heath -- To dislodge / Sally Houtman -- A mother's story / David Howard -- Red sea / Simone Kaho -- Waterfall / Simone Kaho -- We know what the dog of tears will do next / Michele Leggott -- Leader of the pack / Allan McEvoy -- Crack / Timothy McGiven -- On the road / Fiona Lincoln -- Dragonfly collage / Gail Ingram -- The great race / Rosalie Kempthorne -- The huhu grub / Himali McInnes -- The true story / Fiona Lincoln -- Whispers / Gail Ingram -- The Parable of the Beans / Erik Kennedy -- Mountain / Leslie McKay -- Scheherazade / Kate Mahony -- Dreaming of a desert rose / Rata Ingram -- Just my luck / Sue Kingham -- When gorillas sleep / Frankie McMillan -- The youth in the park / Catherine Mair -- The roadkill witch / Kamala Jackson -- In the weekend we went to the beach / Lynne Kohen -- Fahrenheit / Bill Manhire -- Yesterday / Teoti Jardine -- Book of clouds / Saradha Koirala -- Pig song / Bill Manhire -- Trampolining in the Matutukiti / Heather McQuillan -- The possum hunt / Jac Jenkins -- Yard duty / Saradha Koirala -- January in Ireland / S. J Mannion -- A mother's touch / Zoe Meager -- Pink light catches my eye / Lynn Jenner -- So things end / Koenraad Kuiper -- The patriots / S. J. Mannion -- Sharp stars / Zoe Meager -- It starts before the drinking / Elysia Rose Jenson -- Beggars, choosers / Graeme Lay -- Not another nafanua poem / Selina Tusitala Marsh -- American Journal / Courtney Sina Meredith -- Connections: a New Zealand / D. R. Jones -- Drawing / Wes Lee -- Funeral in the rain / Owen Marshall -- A small holding / Vivienne Merrill, -- To die and die again /Wes Lee -- In the playroom / Vivienne Merrill -- They are out on the point / Michele Leggott -- Secondhand palm / Brindi Joy -- Dead space / Mary McCallum -- Three minutes / Eileen Merriman -- Universe and Karl / Eileen Merriman -- Love poem / Gregory O'Brien -- Wintering over / Joanna Preston -- The moon by train / Cherllisha Silva -- Indian summer / Louise Miller -- Closer and closer / Rachel O'Neill -- JackTM / Chris Price -- Gone to sea / Rebecca Simons -- Instead of the madeleine / Louise Miller -- The children have grown / Rachel O'Neill -- The present / Patricia Prime -- Fisheye / Tracey Slaughter -- The homecoming / Harvey Molloy -- Pretend I'm your mother / Maris O'Rourke -- First fox / Leanne Radojkovich -- Skyscraper, moon, sea / Madeleine Slavick -- Parting / Elizabeth Morton -- Three firsts / Math O'Rourke -- Changing course / Maggie Rainey-Smith -- Daffodils / D. E Smale -- Stones / Elizabeth Morton -- The dark / Eileen Palmer -- Boil up / Vaughan Rapatahana – Silence / Rachel Smith -- The wheat field / Linda Moser -- Last ride / Janet Pates -- Folly House / Harry Ricketts -- The window is closed / Rachel Smith -- Stoic / Emma Neale -- Not another story about love / Kiri Piahana-Wong -- The storm / Jack Ross -- Salt / Vivienne R. Smith -- The changing rooms / Emma Neale -- Quarters to spare / Patrick Pink -- One aisle over / Nina Seja -- Pepper / Vivienne R. Smith -- It's cool in Katoomba / Piet Nieuwland -- Taking my boyfriend / Patrick Pink -- Sinfonia / Kay Shacklock -- Engageantes = detachable sleeves to his tangihanga / Elizabeth Smither -- Five travellers in a small Ford / James Norcliffe -- The deer builds a portaloo / Kerrin P. Sharpe -- Spider-Man blue / Grant Stone -- 128 Abel Smith Street / Vivienne Plumb -- Threshold / Heidi North -- For Pepper / Tina Shaw -- Thomas / M. B. Stoneman -- Rites / Martin Porter -- Evolving with energy drinks / Keith Nunes -- Kalos / Emma Shi -- On Godley Head / Barbara Strang -- The New Zealand weather pattern / Joanna Preston -- Eye contact / Kirsten Strom -- Parade / Rebecca Styles -- Eat beetroot / Jane Swan -- Three sisters / Jane Swan -- Trip legend / Mere Taito -- That fat guy / Jeff Taylor -- Triptych: her shoes / Vivian Thonger -- La Crue de la Seine, 28 Janvier 1910 / Emma Timpany -- Miri / Reuben Todd -- A cup of tea / Tim Upperton -- Women's studies / Kathryn van Beek -- That summer / Latika Vasil -- Winter in Auckland / Richard von Sturmer -- Peacock Ann Webber -- & some scenes together / Elizabeth Welsh -- The sadness of gifts / Tom Weston -- Traffic noise / Tom Weston -- The freeloaders / Keith Westwater -- Slow day in skunkworks / Brendon Stanton White -- Ophelia at Huntly / Sian Williams -- Bones / Nicholas Williamson -- Hands / Iona Winter Calligraphy / Sue Wootton -- Votive / Sue Wootton -- Two fish / Phoebe Wright -- Esme and the whitebait / Louise Wrightson -- 'What am I reading?' / Allan Drew -- On misunderstanding, masquerade and the prose poem / Joan Fleming -- Walls and bridges / Tim Jones -- Securing the empty spaces / Heather McQuillan -- Segmentivity and the sequence: Prose poetry, flash fiction and hybrid forms / Airini Beautrais -- The shadow-line, or: What's the difference between micro-fiction and prose poetry? / Jack Ross -- Flash fiction -- shaking the mixture / Martin Porter.