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Hayden Macpherson

Hayden Macpherson was born in Christchurch, moved north to Gisborne, then moved even further north to South Auckland, where he now lives. He is an undergraduate student of History and English at the University of Auckland, an aspiring writer and inveterate adverb-abuser. He works part-time at a library, which is a very nice place to work

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Auckland Shorts

MAGIC Part of night’s magic is how it preserves possibilities day annihilates. Those floodlights, barren blare delimiting the asphalt of State Highway One from the formless darkness beyond, might be the sentinels of a robocratic regime. Those bright points shaping a hill from shadow might be the watchfires of a…
Hayden Macpherson
December 15, 2019