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    • Dragons – A Paranormal Romance Short Story
    • North – A Post Apocalyptic Comedy Short Story
    • Breathing – A Superhero Short Story
    • Sir Pickle and the Meanie-Bad Chocolate Stealing Knight
    • Beach – A Post Apocalyptic Short Story
    • Clouds – A Science Fiction short story
    • Rain – A Horror Short Story
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    • Bomb – A Horror Short Story
    • Bus Stop – A Paranormal Short Story
    • Pain – A Horror Short Story
    • Above – A Science Fiction Short Story
    • Watching – A Horror Short Story
    • Mist – A Fantasy Horror Short Story
    • Defective – A Superhero Short Story
    • Sick – A Post-Apocalyptic Horror Short Story
    • Foraging – A Fantasy Shortstory
    • The Trouble with Conventions – A Zombie Short Story
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    • 1 Year – A Scifi Short Story
    • Life Begins… A ‘Horror’ Short Story
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    • Scared – A Short Story About Freedom
    • Asset – A Superhero Short Story
    • Jealous – A Sci-fi Short Story
    • Empty – A Ghost Story
    • Once – A Fantasy Tale of Trickery
    • Tired – A Post-Apocalyptic Yarn
    • The Blood – A Horror Story
    • Nervous
    • Waiting For Coffee
    • The Test
    • Two Secrets – An Experiment
    • Mother’s Always Right
    • The Phone – A Horror Story
    • Nowhere – A SciFi Short Story
    • A Night on the Town
    • The Shop – A Fantastical Tale of Revenge
    • Sunlight and Shadows – A fantasy short story about justice
    • The Party – A Horror story
    • Ben – A Tale of Zombie Woe
    • Doubt – A Superhero Story
    • Childhood’s End
    • The Tree – The Politics of Crows
    • Swimming Alone – An Apocalyptic Tale
    • 7 Days – A Tale of Magic and Debt Collection
    • Ransom Note – A Tale about Remembering
    • Unlucky – A Vampire Tale
    • The Letter – A SciFi Story about Love
    • A Fairytale Ending… A Superhero Fairytale
    • Wrong Number
    • The Duet
    • The Piano Sings
    • Brotherly Love – a twitter story
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Cairns Writes 2017 – Video Twelve – Who is your favourite character?

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I attempt the impossible and try to choose my favourite character from everything I’ve ever read… foolish, but fun, in a geeky sort of way.

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Posted in Vlog | Tagged reading, vlog

Cairns Writes 2017 – Video Eleven – Cafe Everything

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I get all excited about my new series, which takes place in an establishment of dubious virtue (not a knocking shop, mind, just dubious), in which the patrons can get anything they desire. Anything.

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Posted in Vlog | Tagged magic, vlog

Cairns Writes 2017 – Video Twelve Point Five – Ninja Zombie Killers V is here!!

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I celebrate the release of another book about musicians killing things with swords… hurray! :

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Posted in Vlog | Tagged book release, zombies

Cairns Writes 2017 – Video Ten – 13 Roses Book Trailer

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I wax lyrical about the potentially fabulous book trailer idea we’ve just come up with and now have to send ourselves mad figuring out how the hell we’re going to film it…

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Posted in Vlog | Tagged vlog, zombies

Cairns Writes 2017 – Video Nine – Megalopolis

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I celebrate the completion of a trilogy that features, to my great surprise, lots of superheroes and fighting…

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CairnsWrites 2017 – Video Eight – The Rupture Part Three

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Michael Cairns
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In which I try to contain my excitement at the continued joy and wonder I get from creating The Rupture…

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Welcome to Cairns Writes

Thanks for dropping by. This is the online home of Sci-Fi. Fantasy and Horror Author, Michael Cairns.

This year is shaping up to be a killer, with the first trilogy of the City Electric Saga already available and Michael’s first children’s book just released. In the latter half of the year, since everything went south, we’ve released the first two novellas in the Friday Night Double Feature series, Jimmy Vs Mutant Killer Crocs and Jerry In The City Of The Damned. They both just as ridiculous and wonderful as they sound…

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Work in Progress

I’m currently working on the third book in the Nirusha series and loving it. There’s something wonderful about inhabiting the head of a sassy, magic-wielding 12 year old girl, particularly when she’s getting messed up with time travel and abandonment issues.

I was going to move onto something else, possibly my long-awaited sequel to the classic kids novel, the BFG. So far, I’ve got the title…

The FBG II, Sofie Goes Bad.

I know, great right? I’m being careful with the copyright on this one, because it’s going to feature uzis, spies and a foul mouthed monarch. Honestly, it’s going to be great. But first I have to finish Nirusha Through The Pages of Time.

I’m editing the third of my ‘gonzo’ novellas. Having just released my first kid’s book, I figured it was time to release something I’ll never let my kids read. Ever. We’ve had great feedback on Jimmy and Jerry, so I can’t wait to unleash Harry on the world…

What’s Going On?

Mixing my audio book, editing my gonzo short story series, eating too much chocolate, enjoying the life of isolation brought on by corona-related lockdown, eating too much chocolate and trying not to get cabin fever…

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