The afterlife of an ice cream wrapper : Re-Draft's 22nd collection of writing by New Zealand teenagers / selected by Michelle Elvy and James Norcliffe; series editor Glyn Strange.

The afterlife of an ice cream wrapper / Elizabeth Stephens -- Mount / Shima Jack -- Gone, and also forgotten / Finn Kerby-Pinguet -- Ally at five / Grace Johnston -- Portrait my dad painted / Minna Zhu -- Homeward bound / Kate Twomey -- Transmundanist / Rose Leighton -- Someone comes / Molly Laurence -- A withering gladiolus lies in a bed / Mikayla Sieu -- Flightless without a pen / Olivia Eint -- Pop-up oracle / Kate Twomey -- Subway should remain on campus (a persuasive speech) / Chris White -- Overthinking / Zoey Sargent -- Whale / Zoe Chapman -- Theseus / Ella Sage -- The blind woman and the desert / Aaliyah Raja -- His mother / Kate McEwan -- The shitake story / Abby Sangwine -- The potato and the napkin / Kate Rickard -- Can I help you? / Audrey Anna Robin -- You and me / Amy Piper -- That must have hurt / Adeeba Shaik -- Bible study / Maia Hopokingi -- Next time / Ann Lowe -- The bench / Mariam Rietveld -- DUCK / Thalia Peterson -- Mathew Whittaker / Cleo King-Turner -- Cheese plastic / Samantha Sherriff -- Titi / Maia Hopokingi -- Pandora / Ruby Arnold -- Wading birds / Sarah-Kate Simons -- Stop running / Jamie Dunnett-Welch -- The moon / Nicole Ni -- Water hazards / Elaine Cao -- Spark / Mikayla Preston -- Introductions in an unsent letter / James Lee-Guard -- My body is gorse / Mikayla Preston -- An ode to the fruit bowl / Bram Casey -- Before I go on / Emily May -- Porcelain elephant / Varunnan Tantichantavong -- Miles / Conor Doherty -- My lover was made to be a pianist / Caisson Richards -- Lemon and honey / Ella Sage -- I don't do anything / Minna Zhu -- The love feast / Mikayla Preston -- Crying cousins / Sophia Flavell -- Windsong / Hannah Wilson -- Clasp / Rebecca-Judah Song -- Over the line / Paul Williamson -- Tusks of ivory / Louise Scriven -- Watching you dance / Lucy Worthington -- Balloon lungs / Sarah-Kate Simons -- In the space between / Ocean Jade -- Set {personhood} = = false / Atom Gush -- Digitalised / Denika Mead -- Artificial life / Emily Taylor -- Fill in our survey and be in to win! / Molly Laurence -- Falling like rain / Tiana Schwarz -- Feathers & flowers / Sylvia Grant -- New Zealand Herald -- breaking news, and also breaking minorities / Finn Kerby-Pinguet -- Hawk and field mouse / Ruby Hart -- Hine and tui / Brooklyn Hitchcock -- Dislocated / Alia Govin-Fowler -- Dùthchas (dutchas) / Sersha Forde -- The coincidence of being; and the sadness therein / James Lee-Guard -- Swimming pool/Monkey Bay / Sersha Forde -- Moko kauae / Amaia Watson -- My hair in comparison / Ocean Jade -- Convenience store afternoons / Mina Garay -- Westside stories / Ruby Buffett-Bray -- 6.50 a.m. on a Saturday / Nico Alvarez Rey-Virag -- Mother-daughter / Isabelle Lloydd -- All the bad things / Shinayah Ko -- The Spanish port of nothingness / Angus Stanbrook-Mason -- And again, dawn / Elaine Cao -- Darkness / Clare Scarlett -- Scrubs of pewter / Suzi Saweirs -- Look down / Brianna Searle -- A day in the life / Ruby Hollister -- August 17th / Jorja Rosser -- All the good times / Harrison Marshall -- There's always plenty more fish in the sea / Jasmine Longley -- (Quote, unquote) retirement / Hilarie Reid -- 88 keys / Oshadha Perera -- Butter / Kate Harrison -- Street shot / Anna Davison -- What to do when things get dark / Alia Govin-Fowler -- I am danger / Thalia Peterson -- The weapon / Isla Hindin -- Moon god / Charlotte Tolcher -- This is a metaphor / Hugo Todd -- Strangers / Ashley Earl-Goulet -- Words in circles / Imogen Crooks -- Anglerfish in the sink / Jacob Dowling -- Empty / Brianna Searle -- Islands / Hannah Wilson -- My child / Shelby Allan -- The truth bites / Meg Johnston -- Remember when / Aria Huang -- Candy cane fingertips / Hugo Todd -- Two roads / Mikayla Sieu -- House / Teeankin Tohiariki -- Love is a taniwha / Isla Tuato'o -- The asockolypse / Saphra Peterson -- Jack / Emily Taylor -- Fear / Amelia Frear -- My wishes for those who wreck beautiful things / Shelby Allan -- True / Blair McCallum -- Of all the lives I have lived / Imogen Crooks -- New creed for a cryogenic chamber / Elaine Cao -- Aodh's taxi service / Theo Nogher -- Past the dawn, where it's darkest / Kate Twomey -- Beneath these boots / Lucy Worthington -- Poem / Jackson McCarthy -- Mermaid town / Chris White -- An ode to the half-eaten willow / Minna Zhu -- Twillight / Tahlia Cooper -- Kinship / Abby Sangwine -- Gifted / Alia Govin-Fowler -- Tomorrow / Elsie Talbot -- A scientist, a priest, and a poet on an expedition at the end of the world / Atom Gush.