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 more than twenty years …