published short stories
The Hors d'Oeuvres of the literary world; get one good enough, and you can leave the party early. Here’s a quick taste of Cairn’s work.
“Wildly ambitious (…) strange and magical, but also gritty and real.”
“Wondrously strange (…) unlike anything I’ve read.”
The Bird Bag
Winner of the 2023 Edith R. Mirrielees Award for Creative Writing, an Inkling Award for contributions to the literary field, and the 3rd place winner of Uncharted Magazine’s Voyage YA award, “The Bird Bag” is the belovedly peculiar, hauntingly unique story of a woman who grows birds in her garden.
Sun in the sea
Originally published in She the Magazine, “Sun in the Sea” is an accompanying short story for one of Cairn’s novels.
dear eva
“Dear Eva” is a space odyssey told over the span of a single day. It was adapted and published on WEBTOON as a limited series graphic comic under the name “Dear Eva, Space Girlfriend” for the 2020 Heartstopper event.
(Be gentle with her, she’s very old.)