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y separately published work icon Short Chaps series - author   short story  
Alternative title: BJP Short Chaps; A Brain Jar Press Short Story
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Short Chaps
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A different author-series to Brain Jar Lab's Short Fiction Lab, Short Chaps is a series of chapbooks, each containing a single story.

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y separately published work icon Black Dog : A Biography Peter M. Ball , Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2018 9820721 2009 single work short story fantasy

'The Black Dog’s been eating his girlfriends for years. Now Pete’s met someone the dog won’t devour.

'There are three things Pete believes to be true about his life: he loves reading; nothing interesting is ever going to happen to him, and the Black Dog who lives behind the fence will eat everyone he loves. It’s been happening since his childhood, and he’s mostly gotten used to it…right up until he meets Victoria.

'The dog seems reluctant to eat her, no matter how much Pete seems to like her. Then Victoria points out she can see the Black Dog too, and everything Pete took as a given about his life starts to change…including his relationship with the Black Dog itself.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2018
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y separately published work icon Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called the Band Peter M. Ball , Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2018 18623816 2018 single work short story fantasy

'Their final gig ended with two hundred people dead. Patrick’s only regret is that he wasn’t there to be a part of it.

'There were three things everyone knew about the band: they played like demons, sang like angels, and there was definitely something magic about the way they glowed onstage. Patrick’s still hanging onto that, 15 years after their final gig. All those people may be dead, but they were part of something special and he chickened out before the end.

'Now he’s back on the Gold Coast for the first time in years, walking the streets where he used to see the posters, going past clubs that have been turned into Korean restaurant instead of a home for punk gigs. He can remember everything about those years when he was a fan, and he’s loaded with regrets about the gigs he missed.

'The band were called many things in their day: Hornet’s Attack Your Best Friend Victor; Whisky-Whisky-111; All that Glitters and We Will Always Have the Lighthouse My Melancholy Bride. None of those names stuck. None of them felt real. And Patrick isn’t sure he cares what the band was called—he just wants to touch that feeling he lost, no matter what it might cost him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2018
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y separately published work icon The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta Peter M. Ball , Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2020 9833176 2014 single work short story fantasy

'Sixteen executions have failed. The seventeenth is about to begin.

'Beal devoted his life to the study of executions. The notorious Don Vashta is the greatest challenge any executioner can face: an immortal criminal who always rises from the dead to sin again.

'A short story about a job that turns into a friendship, and a friendship that becomes an obsession.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2020

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