Breach: Issue #08: NZ and Australian SF, Horror and Dark Fantasy

by Deborah Sheldon, Jessica Nelson-Tyers, David Stevens

Breach #08 is here!

Our 8th issue skews heavily to horror, covering a few different subgenres by some amazing writers. Deborah Sheldon (Contrition, Thylacines) starts things off with "For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights", a dark tale about friends discovering an abandoned campsite.

Jessica Nelson-Tyers and David Stevens follow with "Hit and Rot" and "Baby, Cold Outside", two stories that may make you think twice the next time you get in a car.

Ferne Merrylees' mournful fantasy "Garage Sale of Lost and Unwanted Things" offers a brief respite before William Cook's brutal "Death Comes Calling".

Carlington Black's darkly comic "The New Suit" pits two men against each other, while Sam M. Phillips goes to a bleak place in "Twisted Labyrinth".

Here we have a brilliant collection of stories from across Australia and New Zealand, by new, emerging and established authors.

And to top it off, regular contributor Claire Fitzpatrick shows off her art skills with her first Breach cover.

Breach is a bi-monthly digital magazine with a focus on new and emerging Australian and New Zealand writers and artists. Thank you for supporting independent publishing!

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 25, 2018

About the author

I'm a multi-award-winning author and anthology editor from Melbourne, Australia. I write poems, short stories, novelettes, novellas and novels across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir. My latest titles are the novel Nightmare Reef and the poetry collection The Broonie and Other Dark Poems.
My award-winning titles include the novella Redhead Town and the collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories. My award-nominated titles include the novels Bodily Harm, Cretaceous Canyon, Body Farm Z, Contrition and Devil Dragon; the novella Thylacines; and the collections Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories and Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories.
My short fiction has appeared in many well-respected magazines, been shortlisted for numerous awards, translated, and included in various 'best of' anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror.
I've won the Australian Shadows 'Best Edited Work' Award three times: for Midnight Echo 14, and for the anthologies I conceived and edited, Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, and Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite.
Other credits include TV scripts such as NEIGHBOURS, feature articles, non-fiction books published by Reed Books and Random House, stage plays, award-nominated poetry, and award-winning medical writing including Better Health Channel.