he promised. He looked down at the sleeping child in her arms and bent down to kiss his forehead. The baby stirred but didn’t wake.“Are you sure you are healed?” she asked.“You cannot keep me another day,” he said. “I have lain here for two months now and it is time that I go to Paterangi and def...
What a surprise! I thought maybe she wanted to make up, but that wasn’t the reason she phoned.“Your Nonna’s had a fall at home and she’s been taken to hospital,” she said.“What? Why did she fall? Did she trip? Is she all right?”“I’m not sure what happened, Gina,” Mum said. “I’ve got to go down to...
the commodore shouted. “Any of the men wishing to save themselves must be ready at the starboard side of the ship to jump into the launch.”Another boat had been prepared. It was the big one in the centre of the ship; it had taken thirty seamen to get her over the side and now she hung by both aft...
But when he came to, he became aware that that music had changed to something old, something from his father’s generation, even before. Something that invoked the feel of the beach and the surf. The music teased his consciousness as his sluggish brain tried to identify it. It was the Beach Boys a...