From The Beginning To The Latest
Readers asked for the fiction posts to be available in chronological order, so here they are.
- The Great Leap Backwards – Our protagonists return to Wellington after their OE.
- The Lay of the Land – Nerves and nostalgia.
- A Kelburn Matriarch – Wilhelmina Wellington at gale force.
- Meet Walter Wellington -Â One of the city’s finest beta males.
- Who Is Will? – The mystery of a self-made man.
- Up The Coast – Karin Kapiti, annoyingly righteous and annoyingly right.
- Perfect Anywhere But Here – Having it all with Helena Hutt.
- Flat Hunting in Wellington – The sheer hell of it.
- Not An Interview – But just as nervewracking.
- Wellington Hair – Step away from the straightening iron.
- Moore Wilson’s – Shock, envy, and ambition among the arugula.
- Reunited – Meet Winona’s new best friend, Willow.
- The Good Day – The components of the ideal Wellington Good Day.
- But We Just Got Here – What do you mean, you’re moving to Australia?
- Fun After All – Saved by the bogan bartender.
- My Welly Valentine – Romance, Wellington style.
- Wellington Men I: The Best Mate – Sensible bogan guys improve with age.
- Wellington Men II: The Cad – How a man can get away with treating women so very badly in Wellington.
- Wellington Men III: The Export – A lanky Yankee software expert with the hottest job in town.
- The Waiting Space – One of those flats that you live in when you’re not planning to stay terribly long.
- Celebrity Sighting – Don’t make eye contact…don’t say anything…just act like a perfectly normal person and start texting…
- Unbrunched – Willow as a Sunday morning singleton.
- Landlord’s Perogative – What landlords get to do in Wellington, and who they do it to.
- The Guardian Sphinx – Riddle me one job interview, Wellington-style.
- Craft Fair Chaos – Are craft fairs still special when there’s one every weekend and every other woman is cranking out felt owls?
- Makes A House A Kiwi Home – What does? A lemon tree and a cat.
- The Department of Stodge – A government department that is kicking it old school interviews Winona.
- Rites of Passage – Winona finds out what she’s made of, and meets Wellington’s youngest cafe critic.
- The Starfish – Putting the psycho in psychogeography, and a connection between Willow and Wayland.
- My Squalor Was More Squalid – Winona meets the coolest of the cool, Ulrika.
- The Flat of Legend – Once upon a time, on a Te Aro Street, there was an enchanted flat.
- 1 BR Avail, Hataitai, Share W/Prof F – Willow’s flatmate-hunting travails.
- It’s About Time – Winona joins the staff of the Department of Stodge.
- Bogan 3.0: Our Bogans, Ourselves – Bogans and government go surprisingly well together.
- Mud and Petals – What it takes to stand out from a rainy mass of commuters.
- Any Way The Wind Blows – Will is subject to influences.
- Winona Woolgathers – When a Wellington party doesn’t gel.
- An Inevitable American – Meet Jennifer, Yankee expat, and learn more about her and her uterus.
- Frankie’s Friday – Queer life through the eyes of Winona’s co-worker, Frankie.
- Not A Jolly Holiday – A bartender’s Queen’s Birthday.
- Rug Up, Mate: Wellington Storm Wear Strategies – Meet Layer Lady, Parka Girl, The Bogan In Winter, and more.
- An Actual Conversation – It’s hard finding time to catch up with friends in Wellington.
- Hutt Chub – Wellingtonians tend to be thin. Other areas…
- It Only Happened The Once – “I make out with one girl at a party and the next thing I know I’m That Lesbian Bartender.”
- Happy…Midwinter…Thing: Matariki Madness – We’d like to celebrate midwinter, if only we knew how.
- Qui Audet Adipiscitur – Who watches the watchers when Winona starts thinking of vengeance?
- Our Scum – The problem when someone’s acting like scum in Wellington.
- If a budget falls in the forest and nobody spends it – The madness of end-of-year spending in government departments.
- Auckland Mysteries – Why is a Wellingtonian sexier in Auckland?
- Rusticated – Country guests come to Kelburn.
- Rusticated II, or, Bacon Futures – The next generation of country guests, complete with survivalist low-food-miles BLAT.
- Rusticated III: Seen at the Market – Rural traders prefer Wellington money, and survivalist meets dream girl.
- Leave Town During The Film Festival? Are You Mad? I mean, really!
- The Sighting – Heartstrings get pulled by Wellington poverty.
- A Flower for Vicky – Winona has a moment with the Queen Victoria statue.
- What Snow Is, and Will’s New Passion – Between two lovely women, a bloke falls passionately for…a car.
- Unrecognizable for a Night – Shimmer, glamour, nightlife – is it really Willow, is it really Wellington?
- The Escape Plan – Shut-ins plan how to get away from the cruel lashes of winter.
- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ulrika? – Handling a rival in Wellington’s tiny social terrarium.
- The Wind Up – What is it that’s making Will act all blokey?
- Nerdxhaustion – Being a geek didn’t used to be this tiring.