TY - BOOK AU - Gamble, Craig, TI - Middle distance: long stories of Aotearoa New Zealand SN - 9781776564323 AV - PR9637.32 M5335 2021 U1 - NZ823.308 23 PY - 2021///. CY - Wellington, New Zealand : PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press, KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century N1 - Scales, tails and hagfish / Octavia Cade -- School spirit / Joy Holley -- The promotion / Maria Samuela -- Basil and the wild / Rem Wigmore -- Getaway / Nicole Phillipson -- Backwaters / Emma Sidnam -- The dead city / Jack Barrowman -- Ko tēnei, ko tēnā / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Ringawera / J. Wiremu Kane -- Around the fire / Anthony Lapwood -- Afterimages / Sam Keenan -- Like and pray / Samantha Lane Murphy -- Sea legend / Kathryn van Beek -- The Black Betty tapes / David Geary N2 - "The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and sprawls, expands and contracts, and which allows us to inhabit a world in one sitting"--Back cover ER -