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    Breach: Issue #01 NZ and Australian SF and Horror
    Breach: Issue #01 NZ and Australian SF and Horror
    Breach: Issue #01 NZ and Australian SF and Horror
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    Breach: Issue #01 NZ and Australian SF and Horror

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    Travel to the mesosphere to catch a glimpse of Hannah C. van Didden's The Unknown, while in Matey, Peter Kirk wonders what happens when robots get old.
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    With Hurk + Dav, Arthur Robinson introduces two of our favourite new characters. And poet Jesse Hayward plays with time in The Devil's Loop.

    Issue #01 of Australia and NZ's newest SF/Horror fiction digital zine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreach
    Release dateMay 3, 2017
    ISBN9781370146826
    Breach: Issue #01 NZ and Australian SF and Horror
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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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      Breach - Breach

      Copyright © 2017 by each individual author as noted.

      All rights reserved.

      Published by Breach at Smashwords.

      Cover Art by Oliver Hayes / Design by Peter Kirk

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for respecting the hard work of our authors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Copyright

      The Unknown

      Matey

      The Devil’s Loop

      Hurk + Dav

      The Unknown

      Hannah C. van Didden

      Hannah C. van Didden plays with words in the second-most isolated capital city in the world. You will find pieces of her in places like Atticus Review, Southword Journal, Gravel Magazine and her blog thirtyseven — and she hopes you'll see her first novel on a bookshelf near you very soon.

      AARU approaches the room containing his latest addition with a reverent caution. The room is lined with sacred wood, stained with henna sap. The viewing pane is made from diamond glass. The beast's reputation warrants such measures.

      Bedell, the bounty hunter, called the beast Emims. He'd qualified the name in low tones: Terror, it means. In ancient tongues.

      The ship's captain bestowed a different title. We'll call it The Unknown. It sounds more mysterious, don't you think?

      These are the costs of Aaru's work — the placation of dangerous creatures, the captain always being right, the lack of respect that comes with his attachment to this floating freak parade. Because this is what he is. One of the freaks.

      The creature is craned into the room in a two-metre cube, the roof fixed quickly overhead. Aaru watches the cube scatter to dust from the door's tiny window. Even when the cloud has settled, the extent of the beast is not apparent.

      It's a shadowy mass of sinew, limbs and tail tucked from sight; breathing, but without any fight.

      Aaru offers thanks to Bedell in his absence, for not scrimping on the tranquilliser. He shunts the door to its stopper-gap, slips through, brings the door to a close. He doesn't bother to lock himself in. The creature is

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