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    Time Travel: Disappearance
    • Nov 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: Disappearance

    Zena looked about in wonder. She was still at her grandmother’s house, but it was night, and the trees swayed in a breeze that Zena...
    Time Travel: Rebellion on the High C
    • Nov 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: Rebellion on the High C

    “Get moving ye land lovers,” the pirate barks from the bow of the ship. The salty sea air blows through his long brown hair. He resonates...
    Time Travel: It’s a long story...
    • Nov 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: It’s a long story...

    “So what is this ‘long story’ that you have to tell me?” she asks while sipping her coffee. “I’m James. I was born in the 1700s and I...
    Time Travel: Vive La Revolution
    • Nov 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: Vive La Revolution

    Paris, June 5th 1832 “La Liberte ou la Mort,” yelled the man in front as he raised a blood red flag. Monsieur Bertrand was pushed aside...
    Time Travel: Chilled to the bone
    • Nov 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: Chilled to the bone

    It was 38,001 BC. The wind whistled and wandered along the cavernous rock walls, and the airborne frostbite laughed and joked at poor...
    Time Travel: Rat, Saw and Limb
    • Nov 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Travel: Rat, Saw and Limb

    I could be at a party with Stephen Hawking right now, I thought. But, oh no, I'm the one with the ancestral problems… I ran past a row of...
    Stories Encountered at The Arts Centre, Christchurch
    • Nov 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Stories Encountered at The Arts Centre, Christchurch

    Our team had a marvellous two days guiding 48 young writers at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora in Christchurch as part of...
    Imagination spurred by art.
    • Aug 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Imagination spurred by art.

    I bite other people and turn them into werewolves like me.
    A Walk along Breakneck Road
    • Apr 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Walk along Breakneck Road

    We’re going on a walk along Breakneck Road
    Winner: The Bear Hunt Challenge
    • Apr 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Winner: The Bear Hunt Challenge

    We're going on a rabbit hunt
    The Word Tree
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Word Tree

    HONOURABLE MENTION FROM WRITE ON ISSUE 53 BY KATIE SPENCER, YEAR 7, HURUNUI COLLEGE One Sunday afternoon after church, David and I went...
    Sumner Beach from Whitewash Head Road
    • Dec 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Sumner Beach from Whitewash Head Road

    BY CAITLYN MUSSON, YEAR 7, RAWHITI SCHOOL Sumner Beach from Whitewash Head Road 1933 I hang over the squeaking rail cautiously snapping a...
    The Repurposed Tractor 1941
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Repurposed Tractor 1941

    BY KEITH BLACKMUN, YEAR 9, CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL COLLEGE A tractor runs down the street, a time of remembrance. It is currently late...
    New Brighton Bike Race
    • Nov 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    New Brighton Bike Race

    BY NICO PARKES BROWN, YEAR 8, SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL A blast of the salty easterly hits me in the face. My competition ring their bike...
    The Christchurch Motor and Cycling Club's motor races on New Brighton Beach, Christchurch
    • Oct 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Christchurch Motor and Cycling Club's motor races on New Brighton Beach, Christchurch

    BY MAX PHELOUNG, YEAR 7, SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL It’s three pm. A warm summer breeze brushes my cheek, yet my blood is frozen in fear,...
    Penelope in the Basement with a Gun
    • Mar 30, 2019
    • 1 min

    Penelope in the Basement with a Gun

    BY PIPPA MARSHALL, YEAR 6, 2019 Penelope Lila was stealthily sneaking through an underground secret passageway towards the Lord Mayor’s...
    A Three Step Evil Plan
    • Jul 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    A Three Step Evil Plan

    By Holly Davey, Year 7
    Mountain of Legends
    • May 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Mountain of Legends

    By Ira Infante, Year 5
    When My Nanna Bakes
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    When My Nanna Bakes

    By Adam Wake, Year 7
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