A FASCINATION for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary has prompted two long-time friends to put their creative heads together and produce a book of short stories.
Mt Claremont writer Damon Lockwood and his best mate, Nathan Hondros, last week launched Man and Beast: 20 short stories exploring human nature.
“A lot of our stories are inspired by the community where we live,” Hondros said.
“Our characters live everyday lives, but they experience what it is to be extraordinary.”
With characters, including a homeless man and his dog, and a park ranger who finds a rare species of whale, Hondros said it was little wonder the book came to be called Man and Beast.
“We can up with the title after looking back at the stories and realising we had an unintentional theme in our works: a relationship between men and animals – it was a strange thing,” he said.
Copies of Man and Beast can be purchased from www.regimebooks.com.au.
Hondros is already hard at work on his next project, a novel titled The King’s Road.