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Erica Stretton

Erica Stretton is a writer, editor and reviewer from Tāmaki Makaurau. She has a Masters in Creative Writing (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland and was awarded a 2024 Surrey Hotel Residency. Her fiction has been published in Headland, Mayhem, Flash Frontier, takahē and others.

Family Trees 2024 SummerT3STORIES

Family Trees

Lorna sweeps open the curtains and gasps. Fog, opaque and oddly beautiful, has swallowed the view. Little Monroe Bay has become an island. The mist lingers in the gully below the house, wisps hiding amongst the trees, pressing in from the water. Reaching toward her.   They’d chosen this tiny settlement,…
Erica Stretton
November 19, 2024
Three poems © Erica Stretton2017 SpringT3POETS

Three poems

On Breathing   There is no air in me, she says her flushed cheeks turned away no air for words the night presses in on us   I overdose her ignore the prescription label when she             stops talking I run a red light   no…
Erica Stretton
November 19, 2017