There’s no rain yet, but you can feel it in the air, smell it coming. When they’d left the city that morning, they’d driven three hours 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, or the low moan of a cello…

Tracy Farr is a writer who used to be a scientist. She grew up in Australia, and has lived in New Zealand for twenty years…