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Te Herenga Waka student Milla Brown says there has been “so many benefits” since she began fostering Bella, a 17-year-old cat, through Cats Protection Wellington’s senior foster program last June. She described the long-haired domestic as “really good company” and a great source of emotional support as well as entertainment. “She’s very cute, she’s very cuddly. She hangs around giving people cuddles, eats, sleeps—rinse and repeat. “The good thing with an animal is that when

Keira Batten Coogan Winter is swallowing my chances with you. The moon is fat in tonight's sky, and there are these dull clouds following me to each body of water I visit. I am swallowing wine from the week before and wishing you were here on this porch—then I would know where to lean, and who to laugh with, and when the night should end. I want to invite you into me, and then you would say yes and mean it, and we would both turn to rain, or grass, or something else ordi