Eclectic Projects Series

This first issue of Eclectic Projects features four original short stories, the launch of an ongoing serial, and one feature essay from Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author Peter M. Ball Featuring a blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, this issue includes: Two ex-lovers with a bloody, magical secret who reunite in On Meeting An Ex-Girlfriend For Drinks At The Bar Of The Hotel Trio. Young hooligans in trouble with the law get sent to faerie to lie low in Four Mohocks, Sent Abroad. Two travellers trapped in a deadly quarantine in Sweltering Fruit. A reluctant photographer who shoots the subject's soul, instead of their face, in Box Brownie Blues. This issue also sees the debut of The Shackleton Job, an ongoing serial about the professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce and the otherworldly entities who contract her services, and the original writing essay On Heinlein's Habits & The Rise Of The New Pulp Era.   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 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. You can follow his writing life at www.PeterMBall.com.

The second issue of Eclectic Projects features four original short stories and more from Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author Peter M. Ball. The fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories in this issue include: The realities of high density living prove difficult for the sensitive ears of a troll in The Bridge Troll's Upstairs Neighbours. A time travel agent's night off turns violent when marauding Vikings invade On The Corner of Caxton and Petrie, 12:04 AM. A young martial artist questions her very humanity after she's rebuilt following a deadly accident in The Fighter. Cows, heavy metal, and karaoke unleash chaos in Captain Moo-Vell Takes The Mic. Professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce secure the aid of a vampire in The Shackleton Job Part 2: An Old Fashioned Exchange. Issue 2 also features an original essay about the evolution of publishing scams alongside the internet in Here Be Dragons: Vanity Presses, Scams, and Publishing in the Digital Era. 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 short fiction collections include 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.

he third 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: A glimpse into the secrets held by six cats who gather around a magical campfire in Six Cats Go Camping. A dedicated cosplayer who finds new purpose when alien's invade in The Chap Who Wanted To Be Captain Flagg. A mad scientist with dangerous ideas and the cowboy sent to stop him in One Last Job, Then Sleep. The existential crisis felt by those at the heart of the zomie apocalypse in Our Survival and Other Mysteries. Professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce looks for answers in a den of inequity in part three of The Shackleton Job serial, Showdown At The Black Cherry. Issue 3 also features advice on managing writing the complex web of obligations that plague aspiring or part-time writers (equally useful if you're a non-writer with too much on) in Working Around the Ampersands: Tips for Managing Complex and Conflicting Priorities. 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.

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.

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 engineered unicorns using human hounds to fetch and finish the beasts, with dangerous consequences for all, in the stand-alone short In Season. Two partners hunt a virus across the lawless freezone full of genetically engineered gangs in the latest Helix City story, Infection Vectors. Professional thief Talulah Wyndham-Pryce gets some important information about who holds the world's most dangerous bottles of scotch in part six of The Shackleton Job, The Anachronism Strain. Issue 6 also features two short non-fiction essays. On Bookshops, Scenes, And The Big Sleep pulls apart one of film noir's most iconic scenes, laying bare the tools used to make it so effective so other writers can replicate it. Practical Publishing Advice: Know Limits lays out the importance of creating boundaries for yourself when you work outside the standard employer-employee dynamic (as so many writers and publishers do). 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.

Eclectic Projects returns after a short hiatus with four original short stories and more from Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author Peter M. Ball. Dive into this issue to find: A young boy fighting to free his mother from the subterranean prison of the underesea in The Last Stairman.   Friendship and teenage angst put the test beneath hovering alien vessels in Life In The Shadow. A rockstar addicted to a magic waterfall which spills into a city street in the slipstream story Lemosyne Junction. A showdown between gangsters on a hellish colony planet, in the aftermath of a big mistake, in the first Eleanor Holst story, Median Survival Time.  Professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce battles chronomancy and dinosaurs in the fifty instalment of the The Shackleton Job serial, The First Rule of Evading Carnivores. Issue 5 also features a non-fiction piece on the muse, publishing, and understanding what truly is within a writer's control, On The Focus and Locus of Creativity.    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.