Notes

* Mansfield, Katherine: A dill pickle

Bliss

The garden party

* Sargeson, Frank: A great day

A piece of yellow soap

The hole that Jack dug

An affair of the heart

* Duggan, Maurice: The departure

Along Rideout Road that summer

* Frame, Janet: An incident in mid-ocean

A sense of proportion

How can I get in touch with Persia?

The bath

* Shadbolt, Maurice: River, girl and onion

* Stead, C.K. Class, race, gender: a post-colonial yarn

* Haley, Russell: Dutch mosquito

* O'Sullivan, Vincent: Putting Bob down

* Grace, Patricia: Journey

The lamp

It used to be green once

* Kidman, Fiona: Dry rot

* Marshall, Owen: The paper parcel

A view of our country

The rule of Jenny Pen

* McCauley, Sue: Mia culpa

* Smither, Elizabeth: The mathematics of Jane Austen

* Morissey, Michael: What's in a name?

Beethoven's ears

Hitler's French letter

* Keith, Sheridan: Pleasuring Mr White

Dancing in the dark

* Ihimaera, Witi: The house with the sugarbag windows

The kids downstairs

* Koea, Shonagh: The dancing master

* Wells, Peter: Perrin and the fallen angel

A casual kind of incest

* Cranna, John: Archeology

Visitors

* Jones, Lloyd: This place we call home

Me, Clark and Wilder

* Brandt, William: His father's shoes

* Taylor, Chad: Calling Doctor Dollywell

* McHalick, Victoria: The picnic virgin

* Quigley, Sarah: North of the lights

* Perkins, Emily: Barking

The shared experience