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Peter M. Ball made his debut as a speculative fiction writer in 2007, but he'd already been writing for over a decade before turning his attention to science fiction and fantasy. This chapbook brings two early, formative short stories back into print, featuring the discontinuous, post-modern grunge-lit of Night, Morning, Story and the crude horror of Impact. The chapbook also includes a short author's note, positioning these early works in the landscape...
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Their final gig ended with two hundred people dead. Patrick's only regret is that he wasn't there to be a part of it.There were three things everyone knew about the band: they played like demons, sang like angels, and there was definitely something magic about the way they glowed onstage. Patrick's still hanging onto that, 15 years after their final gig. All those people may be dead, but they were part of something special and he chickened out before...
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Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales.Everyone remembers where they were when the briars first choked the city. Everyone celebrates the anniversary of their rescue from the rampaging dragon and the mysterious curse that afflicted Brisbane. But not everybody is in...
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A cabin boy with a secret is lead astray in Tortuga's last great house of ill repute, where the ladies have all returned after death full of mysteries to be unravelled. The Captain promised Tobias Truman a night to remember, but what Toby seeks behind closed doors is a truth only a lady of the house can reveal. The first story in the Crossbones & Sorcery series, available as a stand-alone ebook (also included in the short story collection The Birdcage...
5) Local Heroes
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A Keith Murphy single set after the events of Crusade. Also available in the short story collection These Strange and Magic Things. Keith Murphy's doesn't understand professional wrestling, and he doesn't care to try. But when paying back a debt means figuring out how a demon is feeding on the crowds at the local indie show, the hitman-turned-mage finds himself up against a creature far more powerful than he expected.With the aide of a conflicted...
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Read the first short story in Peter M. Ball's Seraphim Plague series, One Saturday Night, With Angel (also available in the short story collection Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet). There's an angel perched on the Nite Owl roof when Mike shows up for the graveyard shift. He thinks it's the same angel whose been following him for a week. Everybody thinks Mike's going to be purged before morning, Elvis and all the other regulars are telling him...
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Eclectic Projects 006 features more original fiction and non-fiction from Aurealis and Ditamar-award winning author Peter M. Ball.Dive into this issue to find:Two lovers trying to balance their own survival and the needs of their community amid the zombie apocalypse in the latest Red Rain story, Out Past The Fence.Two adventurers compete to finish a poem that will summon a new god into existence in The Termagant's Villanelle.The idle rich hunt genetically...
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