Kimberly Hinds
Bio
A New Zealand-based freelance writer living in Auckland, New Zealand, and author of many emails. Graduate of Massey University Journalism School, and lover of empty calories and overpriced oriental cats.
Blogs at www.mundane2friday.com
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Stories (22/0)
Is This Australia's Most Compassionate Cat?
The kitten was bought as a tactical marriage decoy, and at $500, a relatively cheap one. Tom hoped that getting us a pet would stop me pestering him about proposing and buy him some much needed time. It was a resounding success.
By Kimberly Hinds6 months ago in Petlife
Bad Habits
When the young woman asleep on the cracked vinyl train seat finally woke, she pricked open her eyes but remained lying down. The deep gash on her head must have ached, for she reached up to rub it wearily, caressing her dishevelled blonde locks at the same time. Surrounding her was a group of three older men who peered down over her, frowns forming on their dark brown, weathered faces. One of them visibly flinched at what he saw, but they all remained completely silent. Normally, her eyes were big and round, hazel-colored, like a swamp on a sunny day, she liked to say, but today they were squinting and medically bloodshot.
By Kimberly Hinds8 months ago in Fiction
For the Love of Lamingtons
It was another small town New Zealand bakery, circa 1994. The kind that sold retro (even for then) sandwiches of tinned asparagus rolled up in stale white bread and reheated savoury mince pies. The store window was partially covered with a slouched doily curtain, and the walls had scrawled chalkboard "specials" that never changed. Dad stopped the car, yet again, and headed inside to quiz the teenager working behind the counter over the bakery's chosen spelling of a particular cake.
By Kimberly Hinds9 months ago in Families
Mirror Lake
There weren't always dragons in the valley. Papa once kept Sparkulies in that part of the kingdom too. These were translucent lizard-like beasts which grew almost as big as the juvenile dragons. They had roamed freely and proudly here, pacing about with their knobbly clawed feet in search of food. With their barrelled torsos revealing their pink and mustard coloured innards, they would have been quite terrifying if it weren't for their comical, giant blue splayed ears that waved like sea anenome. But once they got a taste for the flowering Eonapod, with its precious and poisonous petals, they had all died out by the end of the season. It was a shame really. Greed. The downfall of so many creatures in Dezmery.
By Kimberly Hinds10 months ago in Fiction
Televised Dry Horrors
It played out like an oddly cast courtroom drama with A-list actors. Johnny Depp starring as an aging movie star with a crippling drink and drug problem and his stunningly beautiful, high cheek-boned, bat shit crazy ex-wife Amber Heard, twenty two years his junior, fighting over a defamation case, but essentially their dissolved and twisted marriage. This was reality TV at its finest, screening live almost every day for six weeks, backed up by hours of content and commentary from teenagers on TikTok. It was Law&Order meets Judge Judy on the set of Big Brother.
By Kimberly Hinds10 months ago in Humans
- Runner-Up in From Across the Room Challenge
And Just Like That - Middle Aged Misery
Revitalising a show that centres around the dating antics of a group of women, now 15 years beyond their prime and one inimitable character short, wasn’t going to be an easy task, but then again, how could the themes of sisterhood, sexual freedom and glamorous New York living ever disappoint?
By Kimberly Hindsabout a year ago in Geeks
