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Seasonal, Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – Little Monster

October 15, 2019November 5, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(815 words) 'Tis the season to be spooky!

Tagged dark comedy, fiction, flash fiction, Halloween, horror, humour, Short Story2 Comments
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Micro Fiction – The Takers

August 1, 2019October 10, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(100 words) There are things that go bump in the night. They don't live under our beds or in our closets. They live inside of us.

Tagged fiction, flash fiction, horror, micro fiction4 Comments
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Flash Fiction – Chocolate

July 26, 2019October 10, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(475 words) - I'm rifling through my shrinking sac of supplies, listening to the fire pop and crackle behind me. Then I hear it. A crackle, sure, but not of the ember variety... someone is behind me.

Tagged apocalypse, dystopia, fiction, flash fiction, zombies5 Comments
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Poem – Breathing You

May 30, 2019July 26, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

Love me like it hurts It's not right, it's not fair; but -- Your love is my air

Tagged Haiku, heartbreak, love, passion, poems, poetry2 Comments
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Flash Fiction – Wreckage

May 24, 2019July 26, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

To them, she was just a monster. A girl who refused to take her yellow pills -- as if she owed society her complacency after the shit hand it had dealt her.  

Tagged abuse, feminism, fiction, flash fiction, mental health, Revenge Narrative, Short Story, urban fantasy, violence, WerewolvesLeave a comment
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Flash Fiction – Prognosis

May 2, 2019October 10, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(630 words) A lump caught in Jessica's throat. She would be one of them now. One of THOSE people...

Tagged abuse, flash fiction, horror, medical, Short Story, urban fantasy, Werewolves2 Comments
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Micro Fiction – Honeysuckle Tea

April 4, 2019June 1, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(100 words) Sweet, but deadly...

Tagged fiction, flash fiction, horror, micro fiction12 Comments
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Flash Fiction – Artifice

March 26, 2019April 24, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

(470 words) Ellie sits still, engulfed in blackness. She breathes in slowly through her nose and exhales heavily through her lips, until she becomes rather weightless. She's ready.

Tagged climate change, dystopia, Environmental sustainability, fiction, flash fiction, Short Story, technology, virtual reality8 Comments
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Haiku – Nightweird

March 8, 2019March 25, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

Brain babbles nonsense To me, as I drift to sleep I dream in Surreal

Tagged dreams, Haiku, poems, poetryLeave a comment
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Haiku – Break Through

March 4, 2019March 15, 2019 Shyla Fairfax

Slips right through the cracks. No one notices, or cares. Transcends the mundane.

Tagged Bookish, fantasy, Haiku, Neil Gaiman, poems, poetry, urban fantasy4 Comments

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