‘Beneath the Fringe of Heaven’ is a first draft collection of semi-autobiographical short stories set in the early to mid 1960s in the Waitakere Ranges, specifically in Titirangi, and in the surrounding west coast beaches of Kare Kare and Piha. The title is a provisional title only as I wished to emphasise the fact that the stories are set out in the Waitakeres and involve characters and families who, perhaps, lived on the ‘fringe’ of society, both metaphorically and literally. Titirangi itself is situated on the fringe of the city of Auckland.