The fourth issue of Eclectic Projects features four original short stories and more from Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author Peter M. Ball. Dive into this issue to find: 

Teenage friendships tested amid mecha racing on a frost-covered planet in The Last Season. 

Lethal and disturbing magic girls defending humanity against an alien invasion in The Bridesmaids.

An unlikely partnership between a desperate detective and hyper-intelligent baby partner foisted upon him in Warm Milk & Whisky.

Racing across a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with cyborg dinosaurs and cannibalistic gangs in This Is How You Step Up: A Dust Runner's Tale.

Professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce searches for an illusive chronomancer and evades angry thugs in part four of The Shackleton Job serial, On The Street, With Teeth.

Issue 4 also features a short non-fiction piece on stress, writing, and caffeine in Cortisol, Coffee, and the Anxious Writer.

Long regarded as one of Australia’s weirder speculative fiction authors, Peter M. Ball now brings you original fiction each month in his own magazine, Eclectic Projects. Peter is also the author of the novellas Horn, Bleed, Exile, Frost, and Crusade, and his prior short fiction has been collected in The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales, Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet, and These Strange & Magic Things. He’s the brain in charge at Brain Jar Press and lives in Brisbane with his spouse and a very demanding cat.