A Short Fiction Lab original, Peter M. Ball's Winged, With Sharp Teeth is a bittersweet story of two young lovers and the winged crocodile tasked with breaking them apart so a magic land receives its hero. There have always been lands not mapped out in an atlas, and those lands have always needed heroes. Once, Steve had that chance to visit another world, but he stayed and grow older, finding contentment in his friends and his job as council librarian. Now a winged crocodile is trying to tempt Steve's new boyfriend into running away to a magic land to become its hero, and Steve's not sure he can take Duke's assurance he'll never say yes at face value… Winged, With Sharp Teeth is the first short story in the Short Fiction Lab series from Brain Jar Press—home to stand-alone short story experiments in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and fabulist literature. File this experiment under: magic realism; flying crocodiles; relationship stories.
Other books by Peter M. Ball
Peter M Ball is the author of more than fifty short stories and six novellas, along with essays, RPG material, articles, and poetry. His short stories and non-fiction have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Dragon Magazine, Writing Queensland, and Apex Magazine, and has been included in several Year’s Best anthologies. He’s previously taught creative writing at Griffith University and the Queensland Writers Centre, spent five years as the manager of the Australian Writers Marketplace, and convenes the biennial GenreCon writing conference in Brisbane, Australia.
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