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    Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called The Band: The Kaleidoscope's Children, #1
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    The Kaleidoscope's Children Series

    By Peter M. Ball

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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 the end.

    Now he's back on the Gold Coast for the first time in years, walking the streets where he used to see the posters, going past clubs that have been turned into Korean restaurant instead of a home for punk gigs. He can remember everything about those years when he was a fan, and he's loaded with regrets about the gigs he missed.

    The band were called many things in their day: Hornet's Attack Your Best Friend Victor; Whisky-Whisky-111; All that Glitters and We Will Always Have the Lighthouse My Melancholy Bride. None of those names stuck. None of them felt real. And Patrick isn't sure he cares what the band was called—he just wants to touch that feeling he lost, no matter what it might cost him.

     

    Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Other Things We Called the Band is a dark fantasy short story about rock-and-roll, going home, and chasing the dreams of your youth. It's the first story in The Kaleidoscope's Children, a mosiac series of interweaving stories tracing the aftermath of the bands last, deadly gig.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrain Jar Press
    Release dateDec 22, 2018
    Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called The Band: The Kaleidoscope's Children, #1

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      Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called The Band: The Kaleidoscope's Children, #1

      Peter M. Ball
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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 the end. Now he's back on the Gold Coast for the first time in years, walking the streets where he used to see the posters, going past clubs that have been turned into Korean restaurant instead of a home for punk gigs. He can remember everything about those years when he was a fan, and he's loaded with regrets about the gigs he missed. The band were called many things in their day: Hornet's Attack Your Best Friend Victor; Whisky-Whisky-111; All that Glitters and We Will Always Have the Lighthouse My Melancholy Bride. None of those names stuck. None of them felt real. And Patrick isn't sure he cares what the band was called—he just wants to touch that feeling he lost, no matter what it might cost him.   Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Other Things We Called the Band is a dark fantasy short story about rock-and-roll, going home, and chasing the dreams of your youth. It's the first story in The Kaleidoscope's Children, a mosiac series of interweaving stories tracing the aftermath of the bands last, deadly gig.

      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 the end. Now he's back on the Gold Coast for the first time in years, walking the streets where he used to see the posters, going past clubs that have been turned into Korean restaurant instead of a home for punk gigs. He can remember everything about those years when he was a fan, and he's loaded with regrets about the gigs he missed. The band were called many things in their day: Hornet's Attack Your Best Friend Victor; Whisky-Whisky-111; All that Glitters and We Will Always Have the Lighthouse My Melancholy Bride. None of those names stuck. None of them felt real. And Patrick isn't sure he cares what the band was called—he just wants to touch that feeling he lost, no matter what it might cost him.   Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Other Things We Called the Band is a dark fantasy short story about rock-and-roll, going home, and chasing the dreams of your youth. It's the first story in The Kaleidoscope's Children, a mosiac series of interweaving stories tracing the aftermath of the bands last, deadly gig.

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    Peter M. Ball

    Peter M Ball is the author of more than fifty short stories and six novellas, along with essays, RPG material, articles, and poetry. His short stories and non-fiction have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Dragon Magazine, Writing Queensland, and Apex Magazine, and has been included in several Year’s Best anthologies. He’s previously taught creative writing at Griffith University and the Queensland Writers Centre, spent five years as the manager of the Australian Writers Marketplace, and convenes the biennial GenreCon writing conference in Brisbane, Australia.

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