Things With Teeth By Moonlight

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Genres

Flash Fiction, Urban Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poems, Illustrated, and Short Stories

Trigger Warnings

Death and Suicide

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Not part of a series

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Jun 24, 2026

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192 pages

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Things With Teeth By Moonlight

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Blurb

A disquieting miscellany of love, grief, and spending too much time in cafes.

Things With Teeth By Moonlight is an illustrated multi-genre collection of short stories and microfiction, plus a few short poems. The pieces explore affection, loss, fear, memory and identity; shadowy pain; lyric contemplation.

Seventy-one stories: jewels in your hand, pebbles in your shoe, telling of human and other creatures at moments of need, of loss and of reward; falling, rising, and Things in between

When you’re blanketed and warm—when winds howl or the sky is strangely quiet—and you find yourself wondering if anyone else felt those imagined teeth, heard that low inner growl…

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Genres

Flash Fiction, Urban Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poems, Illustrated, and Short Stories

Trigger Warnings

Death and Suicide

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Jun 24, 2026

Page Length

192 pages

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Author

Pam Swanborough started writing in 2019, and has short stories published in Australia and the US; winning Best Regional Writer / runner-up Best Fiction, GMW Emerging Writers’ Competition, Writers Victoria 2019 and completing an Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT in 2022.

She's interested in almost everything, and her writing explores imbalance, the fragility of life and environment, age and memory, and fluid identity. She works in literary / speculative fiction and lyric non-fiction. Pam lives in rural Victoria is currently working on a second major writing projects while renovating a crumbling ruin with which she feels a natural affinity.

Her first published novel ‘Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones’ was one of the Kirkus Review Top 100 Indie Novels 2025.