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Eclectic Projects 006 features more original fiction and non-fiction from Aurealis and Ditmar-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.