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Shutter in Step into the 5th Dimension Anthology (September 2021)
Surgical Intervention in Piker Press (January 2023)
https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=9568
Checkmate in Black Hare Press (December 2022)
My Amygdala in SCARS Anthology (2023)
Read more D.A. Cairns short stories on Vocal Media
https://vocal.media/stories?status=published
and on Short Story Me
https://www.short-story.me/component/search/?searchword=D.A.%20Cairns&searchphrase=all&Itemid=137
(See end for full list of published short stories by D.A. Cairns)
Top Ten Most Macabrely Cool Bugs in the World
https://listverse.com/2021/10/26/top-ten-macabrely-coolest-bugs-in-the-world/
Death By Car in AntipodeanSF (2002)
A Place of Refuge in The School Magazine (2003, 2007, 2015, 2020) Complex Fairy Tales (2016)
Life in the Cemetery in Looking Up (2004)
Green Tracksuit Pants in Delivered (2007)
The Road Through Hell in Champagne Shivers (2007)
Fenwick's Heart in Bread 'n' Molasses (2008)
Wombat Juice in Delivered (2009) and Glassfire (2013)
Goyyou in Aphelion (2011)
In The Company of Fools in Down in the Dirt (2012)
Steaming in Indigo Rising (2012)
The Cut Fairy in Danse Macabre (2012)
Written Off in Necrology Shorts (2012)
Clouds in his Sunglasses in A Small Good Magazine (2012)
Switch Hit in Dead Ink (2012)
The Great Pretender in short-story-me (2012)
Stuffed in Six Minute Magazine (2012)
Guinea Pig in Cynic Online (2012)
The Key to my Heart in Forge Journal 6.1 (2012)
Bodyhugger in Alfie Dog Limited (2012)
Blister in Separate Worlds (2012)
The Road Through Hell in short-story-me (2012)
Brilliant Betty in Phlox online Christian Journal (2012)
The Last Cookie in Alfie Dog Limited (2012)
My Yard, My Rules in Alfie Dog Limited (2012)
Halitosis in Aphelion (2012)
Secret Corner Road in 13 magazine (2012)
That Which Preys on the Weak in Roar and Thunder (January 2013)
Beneath the Southern Cross in Running Out of Ink (March 2013)
Life in the Cemetery in short-story-me (May 2013)
Wombat Juice in Glassfire Magazine (June 2013)
Intersentential Phenomenon in The Wi Files (August 2013
)Quickshift in Alfie Dog (November 2013)
A Sympathetic Interlocutor in short-story-me (2013)
White in Dead Ink (January 2014)
The Voice in Raven’s Light Journal (February 2014)
Charlotte’s Web in short-story-me (April 2014)
Gravel Rash in Raven’s Light Journal (June 2014)
The Cut Fairy in Raven’s Light Journal (June 2014)
Yesterday’s Thief in Forge (July 2014)
Megapixilated in The Wi Files (July 2014)
God in Stereo in Short-Story-Me (January 2015)
Over My Dead Body in Alfie Dog
(February 2015)
The Bounce in Alfie Dog (May 2015)
The Seven Year Itch in Corvus Review (September 2015)
Yummy in Conceit (November 2015)
A Place of Refuge – renamed Lunchtime for Spider in Blast Off School Magazine (October 2015)
Capricorn Moon in Across the Margin (January 2016)
A Place of Refuge in Complex Fairy Tales (January 2016)
Brilliant Betty in Complex Fairy Tales (January 2016)
Black Sparrow in Aphelion (March 2016)
The Death of Isaac in Forge journal (October 2016)
Millers Forest in The Wi Files
(January 2017)
M.O.S.E.S. in Corner Bar (October 2017)
Vixen in Adelaide (October 2017)
Green Tracksuit Pants in Ariel Chart (October 2017)
Long Lost Friends in Aphelion (March 2018)
God’s Flashlight Beam in short-story-me (March 2018)
Terminating Train in AntipodeanSF (July 2018)
Shaking Hands in Aphelion (November 2019)
A Place of Refuge – renamed Lunchtime for Spider in The School Magazine (June 2020) [3rd reprint]
Jack and Jill in Conceit (November 2020)
The Distance Shrivels in Vocal Media (February 2021)
The Voice in Vocal Media (February 2021)
Capricorn Moon in Vocal Media (February 2021)
A Bitter Pill in Vocal Media (March 2021)
Where the Dead Drink in Vocal Media (March 2021)
A Sympathetic Interlocutor in Vocal Media (April 2021)
Beneath the Southern Cross in Vocal Media (April 2021)
Not Funny at All in Vocal Media
(May 2021)
Grown Up Stuff in Vocal Media (July 2021)
Top End Angel in Vocal Media (July 2021)
The Distance Shrivels in Vocal Media (March 2021)
The Key to my Heart in Vocal Media
(July 2021)
Brilliant Betty in Vocal Media (July 2021)
Shutter in Step into the 5th Dimension Anthology (September 2021)
Rabbit Season in Schlock
(November 2021)
Return to RS One in Schlock (March 2022)
The Voice in Close to the Bone (April 2022)
A Sympathetic Interlocutor in Spillwords (2021)
A Sympathetic Interlocutor in Transparent Worlds anthology (2021)
Jack and Jill in Transparent Worlds anthology (2021)
30:19 in Vocal Media (2022)
Twelve Days of Misery in Beautiful anthology (2022)
Dry Reach in Story Town (2022)
The Road Through Hell in Vocal Media (2022)
Alice in Badlands in Spillwords (February 2022)
Guinea Pig in Bewildering Stories (April 2022)
Intersentential Phenomenon in Blood Moon Rising (April 2022)
Steaming in Piker Press (2022)
Cold Inside in Dark Recesses (April 2022)
Gravel Rash in short-story-me (April 2022)
Megapixilated in short-story-me (October 2022)
A Place of Refuge in short-story-me (December 2022)
Checkmate in Black Hare Press (January 2023)
Surgical Intervention in The Piker Press (January 2023)
Deceased Estate in The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected (February 2023)
By Way of Explanation and My Amygdala in SCARS anthology (May 2023)
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