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Micro Fiction – The Takers

August 1, 2019October 10, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(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
Stories and Poems

Flash Fiction – Prognosis

May 2, 2019October 10, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(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
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
Reviews and Essays

Book Review – A Blade So Black (L.L. McKinney)

March 1, 2019March 8, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Right tool for the right job in the right hands? Anything is possible.

Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Black Lit, book reviews, books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fantasy, horror, Retelling, YA2 Comments
Reviews and Essays

Book Review – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)

February 20, 2019March 4, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Their tongues will burn, I thought, as though they had eaten fire. Their throats will burn when the words come out and in their bellies they will feel a torment hotter than a thousand fires.

Tagged 60s, book reviews, Bookish, books, books I like, Classic Stories, classics, gothic, horror, literature, mental health, Shirley Jackson2 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

Haiku – The Calm Before the Storm

January 31, 2019February 6, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

The storm is patient Pets howl at the silence The lights flicker out...

Tagged Haiku, horror, poems, poetry, suspense6 Comments
Reviews and Essays

Book Review – Little Star (John Ajvide Lindqvist)

November 15, 2018November 26, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

This book left me in such a state that I may never listen to ABBA again.

Tagged ABBA, book reviews, books, depression, gore, horror, John Ajvide Lindqvist, mental illness, music, psychosis, supernatural, violence6 Comments
Seasonal, Stories and Poems

Publication – The Sirens Call eZine #41

November 1, 2018November 4, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

I've had the privilege of having a poem and a drabble published in The Sirens Call eZine Issue #41 - Halloween Screams and Other Dark Things, available for free download today!

Tagged drabble, flash fiction, Halloween, horror, micro fiction, poems, poetry, publication, Short Story2 Comments
Reviews and Essays, Seasonal

Book Tag – Halloween

October 31, 2018November 1, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Books!... And HALLOWEEN

Tagged book reviews, Book tag, books, children's literature, Classic Stories, gothic, Halloween, horror, nostalgia, YALeave a comment

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