Middle distance : long stories of Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Craig Gamble.

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.

"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.