The Shining Stories
By Robin Nathan
Stories
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- Cocky
- Cockroach and human - who is the real pest? (duration: 9′56″)
- A Good Fishing Spot
- Casey and his Uncle go fishing for stories. (duration: 9′01″)
- Not For Sale
- Mr Twinkles has more in common with the items in his antique shop, than with his customers. (duration: 10′07″)
- The Shining Song
- A brother and sister live on a deserted rock of an island in the Marlborough Sounds. (duration: 11′10″)
- Knockout
- Part monster, part soccer mum, Mrs Carter makes her daughter's life a misery. (duration: 8′03″)
Credits
Cocky read by Michael Wilson.
Not for Sale read by Timothy Bartlett.
Knockout read by Eilish Moran.
The Shining Song read by Martin Howells.
A Good Fishing Spot read by Peter Haydn.
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Author's Note
These stories tumbled out of my head- each one totally different from the one before. The Shining Song fell out first. It came so easily it felt like someone was whispering it in my ear. Cocky was the second born - I’d written the first sentence years ago and it just wouldn’t go away. A Good Fishing Spot started out life as a small play but turned into a story. Knockout was inspired by a remark made by famous NZ soccer player Wynton Rufer about ambitious ‘sports parents’, and Not For Sale came from an old fashioned place I didn’t even know I had.
Robin Nathan