Breach - Issue #10: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy

by Nikky Lee, Arthur Robinson, Sascha Stronach

We celebrate our 10th issue with a selection of 10 fantastic short stories and poems. Nikky Lee's "The Longest Hour" explores the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy in space, and Aurealis-nominated Arthur Robinson prepares for a very rainy day in "Big Girls Don't Cry".

Xander Stronach's "g = Gm/r2" is a gorgeous, heart-breaking ode to space elevators and the fathers who build them. Things get weird in "The Ethnographer's Gift" and "When Supermarkets Go Bad", while "Pilgrimage" and "The Glowing" look to Lemmy and HG Wells for their inspiration.

"The R Option" and "Blind Date" both concern sex of a strange sort, and Juleigh Howard-Hobson closes #10 with her Return Pain Spell, a working spell in sonnet form.

A great run of fiction from Australia and New Zealand. Enjoy!

47 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 4, 2019

About the author

Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up as a barefoot 90s kid in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with a husband, a dog, and a couch potato cat. In her free time, she writes speculative fiction, often burning the candle at both ends to explore fantastic worlds, mine asteroids and meet wizards. She's had over two dozen stories published in magazines, anthologies and on the radio.

Her fantasy, sci-fi and horror fiction has won three Australian Aurealis Awards, two New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Awards, Bronze at the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year, three Indie Ink Awards, and a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent.