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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.