Waitaki Girls' High School

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Other Title: Contemporary New Zealand short stories

Contents: Real beach weather / by Barbara Anderson -- Our new boss / by Jo Randerson -- The night book / by Charlotte Grimshaw -- Afakasi pours herself afa cuppa coffee / by Selina Tusitala Marsh -- The new neighbours / by Tim Jones -- A wide, clear window / by Damien Wilkins -- Pony Miller / by Alice Tawhai -- Hand dryer yarn / by Duncan Sarkies -- Overseas trip / by Fiona Farrell -- How do you tell when a person's broken? / by Emily Perkins -- Fellow citizens / by Owen Marshall -- The living room / by Eleanor Catton -- Velocity / by Sue Orr -- All the way to summer / by Fiona Kidman -- Note left on a window / by Tracey Slaughter -- Race, class, gender : a post-colonial yarn / by C.K. Stead -- Rat / by William Brandt -- Busy lines / by Patricia Grace -- Photos, to begin with / by Vincent O'Sullivan -- Family life / by Carl Nixon -- Bonding / by Elizabeth Smither -- Three couples / by Julian Novitz -- Apples / by Justin Eade -- As we come marching / by Kate Duignan -- The dancers / by Sia Figiel -- Freezer burn / by Sarah Laing -- Working girl / by Anna Taylor -- Gary Manawatu (1964-2008): death of a fence-post modernist / by David Geary -- Coming down off the hill / by Kirsty Gunn -- The sea as past / by Bernard Steeds -- Ask the posts of the house / by Witi Ihimaera

Previous ed. published 1989 and edited by Susan Davis and Russell Haley

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