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Reviews and Essays

Book Review – Scarborough (Catherine Hernandez)

June 28, 2019August 1, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

I was fifteen. You were four. I taught you drama in a Scarborough community centre. You were surviving neglect.

Tagged Book Review, book reviews, books, Canada, diversity, fiction, LGBTQ2 Comments
Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – Wreckage

May 24, 2019July 26, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

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
Stories and Poems

Micro Fiction – Honeysuckle Tea

April 4, 2019June 1, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(100 words) Sweet, but deadly...

Tagged fiction, flash fiction, horror, micro fiction12 Comments
Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – Artifice

March 26, 2019April 24, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(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
Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – And Then It Came

February 6, 2019February 11, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

It's 7:07 pm. The house is still. The forest is quiet. But Lucia is about to break a rule.

Tagged fiction, flash fiction, horror, mental health, Monsters, Stories11 Comments
Stories and Poems

Micro Fiction – The Memorist

December 31, 2018January 7, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

The Memorist looked tired; exhausted even. It was an exhausting thing she did for people, taking on their memories.

Tagged fantasy, fiction, flash fiction, Magic, memory, micro fiction, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short Story3 Comments
Seasonal, Stories and Poems

Short Story – 100 Years

December 26, 2018January 23, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(Based on Grimms' Sleeping Beauty) It had been only a single gasp of air that alerted her to the trouble.

Tagged anxiety, Briar Rose, Brothers Grimm, empowerment, Fairytales, fantasy, feminism, fiction, gothic, macabre, Magic, nostalgia, Re-imagining, romance, Short Story, Sleeping Beauty, Storytelling, Winter7 Comments
Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – IntelliGENTS

December 5, 2018December 18, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

"You have to keep up with the times," his father's voice whispered uninvitedly in his ear.

Tagged AI, anxiety, artificial intelligence, fiction, flash fiction, machine learning, psychology, Short Story, technology3 Comments
Stories and Poems

Micro Fiction – Rain

November 6, 2018November 9, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

"Mommy? Why did you give me such a sad name?" Rain asked.

Tagged childhood, drabble, fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, parenthood, Short Story6 Comments
Seasonal, Stories and Poems

A Halloween Story (I Wrote as a Kid!)

October 31, 2018November 14, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

A dark, but hilarious, story that I wrote as a 10-yr old kid - Trick-or-treating, kidnapping, and a big rescue (kind of...) Happy Halloween!

Tagged 90s, childhood, fiction, Halloween, Halloween stories, humour, nostalgia, Scary stories, Short Story, Storytelling, YA6 Comments

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