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Table of contents: The free box / Michelle Arathimos -- The stone / Sandra Arnold -- The good and gentle / Ben Brown -- The feijoa is brother to the guava / David Eggleton -- The body / Charlotte Grimshaw -- Whatsmartgirlsknow / Eirlys Hunter -- I've been thinking about you, sister / Witi Ihimaera -- from Manifest / Stephanie Johnson -- Win a day with Mikhail Gorbachev : a melodrama in four parts / Tim Jones -- Heaven freezes / Fiona Kidman -- My friend Freddy / Sue McCauley -- Red Christmas / Paula Morris -- The last good day of autumn / Carl Nixon -- The bugger / Julian Novitz -- Velocity / Sue Orr -- In the palace gardens / Sarah Quigley -- from Two little boys / Duncan Sarkies -- a working model of the sky / Tracey Slaughter -- A war story / C.K. Stead -- Crash / Judith White -- Notes on contributors