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    Breach: Issue #09: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy
    Breach: Issue #09: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy
    Breach: Issue #09: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy
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    Breach: Issue #09: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy

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    **Featuring Piper Mejia's "Planned and Expected", shortlisted for the 2018 Australian Shadows Best Short Fiction award AND
    "The Middle of the Night" by Rebecca Fraser, shortlisted for the 2018 Australian Shadows Best Poetry award
    AND
    “A Devoted Husband" by Melanie Harding-Shaw, shortlisted for the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Best Short Story award**

    Our last issue of 2018, Breach #09 is a delicious bag of goodies overflowing with cyberpunk dystopias, nightmare arborists and a dark take on a classic fairy tale.

    Lazarus Gray's Any Death Will Do looks at the aftermath of an alien invasion, and Piper Mejia's Planned and Expected explores the aftermath of a world war. Melanie Harding-Shaw and Toni Wi's stories both feature trees - and blood, eyeballs, nightmares and monsters in the dark.

    The Cancer Giver is a brilliant addition to Hari Navarro's growing collection of new weird speculative fiction, while Ronnie Smart's The Prince of Despair closes the book with his twisted version of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Rebecca Fraser's poetry offers a nightmare vision among the wires, branches and digital cat piss of the rest of #09.

    Oliver Hayes' cover just kicks total ass.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreach
    Release dateNov 8, 2018
    ISBN9780463449882
    Breach: Issue #09: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy
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    Breach

    Breach is bi-monthly online zine showcasing Australian and NZ writers and artists, with a lean to sci-fi and horror. Our focus is on new and emerging Australian and New Zealand writers and artists, and helping them get their work out into the world. Publishers of Alfie Simpson's "Sub-Urban" (Breach #07), winner of the Best Horror Short Story at the 2018 Aurealis Awards. Our stories have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Aurealis, Australian Shadows and the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. We only publish what we love and believe in and we champion our authors every way we can.

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      Book preview

      Breach - Breach

      Issue #09

      Science Fiction, Horror and Dark Fantasy from Australia and New Zealand.

      ISSN 2209-2196

      Copyright © 2018 by each individual author as noted.

      All rights reserved.

      Find us online at:

      breachzine.com

      facebook.com/breachzine

      twitter.com/BartholemewFord

      instagram.com/breach_magazine

      Cover Art by Oliver Hayes

      Design and Layout by Peter Kirk

      Edited by Peter Kirk

      Published by Breach

      Thank you for supporting independent publishers, writers and artists.

      Contents

      Lazarus Gray – Any Death Will Do

      Melanie Harding-Shaw – A Devoted Husband

      Rebecca Fraser – The Middle of the Night

      Piper Mejia – Planned and Expected

      Toni Wi – Trees

      Hari Navarro – The Cancer Giver

      Ronnie Smart – The Prince of Despair

      Any Death Will Do

      Lazarus Gray

      Lazarus Gray lives in Sydney, Australia. He has written and self-published a sci-fi/adventure novel, and his short stories and flash fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, both online and in print. He’s currently at work on a speculative sci-fi project, which includes a novel, a series of flash fiction shorts and several related artworks.

      Decades ago, when I was older, death was a distant friend; the kind who gets in contact occasionally to let you know they might drop in for a visit – not too soon, but soon enough.

      We’ve lost touch since. Like everyone else back then, I barely had time to give the creepy old bugger a second thought.

      Decades ago, humankind allowed itself to be swindled – for a handful of shiny trinkets and broken promises, we idly bargained away our precious mortality. With only the barest whimper of protest we awarded the Grim Reaper his pat on the back, his gold watch and his pension discount card and sent him on his way.

      Gazing at my human hand briefly intensifies the trauma – drives the loss home with the accuracy of a railroad spike.

      The roan stallion shakes his mane and snorts trail dust from his nostrils before bending to the stream. I leave him to drink and graze a while, lay back on my bedroll and watch the shadows get longer. When the sun hits the tallest tree I stretch the kinks out of my spine, check my .45 and Winchester repeater again. Sloane Hudgins and his two no-good sons will be along in a while.

      If I play it the right way this time, things could turn ugly.

      The chicory cinnamon coffee is improved by the addition of crushed eggshell. I sip and take a bite of jerky, chew on it, sip and bite and chew until the coffee’s gone and I hear hoofbeats coming along the trail.

      The quantum chip in the VR booth fizzles and reality smacks me in the face. I wince at the empty pop

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