Recreation

by Sue Orr

A modern short story from a prize-winning collection, riffing on the traditional Maori creation myth.

Taawhirimatea is the Maori god of weather. According to the Maori world creation story, he chose to stay with his sky father rather than join his siblings and his earth mother when the sky and the land first separated. To this day, he manipulates the weather, wreaking revenge for the separation of his parents. In this entertaining short story, Taawhirimatea is a television weather reporter who might just have more power than mere prediction. . .

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2013

About the author

Sue Orr is the author of two short story collections. Etiquette for a Dinner Party (2008) won the Lilian Ida Smith Award and From Under the Overcoat (2011) was shortlisted for the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and won the People's Choice Award. Her fiction has been published in New Zealand and international anthologies and translated into Spanish. In 2011 she was the Sargeson Buddle Findlay Fellow.

She has taught creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology and Massey University and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University, Wellington. She lives in Auckland with her family.