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Sep 1, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    Do I work at IKEA? (opens the original)

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    Recently I went to IKEA and a woman asked me if I worked there. I didn’t work there and I was surprised, confused, why she thought that I did because the people who work in IKEA very visibly, very famously, wear bright yellow and blue, the colours of IKEA. I was wearing a maroon dress that I had got at the Target at Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast. There were a lot of this dress available on the clearance rack and it was immediately obvious to me that it was because they’d sized them wrong and ea

  2. Issue · Aug 8, 2026

    Recipe for Success (opens the original)

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    I haven’t made a post (I think these are supposed to be called newsletters but I find that slightly too much, I can’t bring myself to send a newsletter about myself and what I’m up to, even though I love newsletters in general, I love to read aotearoa lit4lit every week even though I hate going to local literary events because I’m nervous about who might be there and people in such places tend to stare at me, recently I was in town and people in lanyards kept staring at me and I didn’t know why

  3. Issue · Jul 12, 2026

    This Country (opens the original)

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    I haven’t written a blog in a long time. When I was a teenager, all the artsy types had a Blogspot and would write passive aggressive confessions about each other interspersed with DSLR photos and random jpegs. I remember my friend posted that she had taken E at Modest Mouse and hadn’t told me because I was too judgemental about drugs, which was partially to do with our other friend taking E and having a seizure at the after-ball and throwing up on the shoes I’d lent him. And we would read the b

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