A Short Story Of Love And Betrayal

A DigitalNZ Story by Andy HKN

You would have thought we could be happy together. Care free even. But they are not easy women, and I am not an easy man. She is dark, and not as she seems.There are things to say before leaving, but I just can't face their leery eyes and chums. I feel the wicked sun setting, and the peninsula disappearing before my eyes. My home. The birds sing their night time choras, as I leave it all behind. The world is desolate and empty.

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Leapaway girl

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Rutu

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Mangaweka

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Students entertain theatricals

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Morris Commercial, Hokianga

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Otago Peninsula

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Fatbird

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Waikanae landscape

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