This book is the result of a 1996 competition to collect together the best short stories of roughly 500 words each (so that's about one-and-a-half to two pages per story in this book). There's no particular theme, so the stories range all over the place: funny, odd, sad, love, death.
Some of the stories, like the first one, you will already know. Most you won't, unless you happen to have the complete work of the 89 New Zealand writers who contributed to the book. Some make you think (what the heck is Two Down about on page 45/6?).
This isn't a cover-to-cover read. It's one to dip into from time to time.
My rating: OK