There’s no rain yet, but you can feel it in the air, smell it coming. They’d left the city that morning, driven south in midwinter sunshine, under skies of unbroken blue…

Music from a theremin can sound like a human voice, or an electronic scream; like an alien spaceship imagined for a B-movie soundtrack, or the low moan of a cello…

Tracy Farr is a novelist and short story writer who used to be a scientist. Originally from Australia, she has lived in New Zealand for over twenty years…