Flash and Short Stories by Shane Ann Connell
Flash and Short Stories by Shane Ann Connell is the fiction hub of Shayney Studios, bringing together original stories exploring myth, horror, spiritual order, African creation myths, human behaviour, memory, death, and the unseen structure of reality.
These stories are part of the wider Shayney Studios ecosystem, where fiction, myth, horror, visual storytelling, and spiritual ideas connect into larger creative worlds.
Some stories are available on Amazon. Others form part of the Shayney Studios Archive, including early works, experimental pieces, comic strips, novellas, artwork, and members-only material.
Kalunga Line
A mythic short story about the boundary between life, death, spirit, and matter.
The Baobab Tree
A mythic story about rootedness, ancestral memory, nature, and the spiritual symbolism of trees.
Mawu
A mythic story exploring divine creation, cosmic balance, spiritual order, and the structure of existence.
African Creation
A short mythic story exploring the beginning of existence, divine order, creation, and the first shaping of the world.
Busha — The Mantis
A mythic short story about trickery, survival, intelligence, and the strange power of small things in creation stories.
Shango
A mythic story of thunder, power, divine authority, pride, and the dangerous force of spiritual command.
Nzambi
A creation myth story exploring divine source, hidden order, spiritual authority, and the unseen foundation beneath reality.
Leza
A mythic story about distance between heaven and earth, divine presence, human longing, and the cost of separation.
Obatala
A mythic story about creation, imperfection, responsibility, and the sacred burden of shaping human life.
The Gourd of Night
A mythic short story about darkness, containment, cosmic order, and what happens when night is released into the world.
Bumba
A Central African creation myth retold through Shayney Studios, exploring origin, force, life, and the strange beginning of the world.
Three Pounds(2018)
A sharp short story set in a charity call centre, where one awkward fundraising call exposes the tension between compassion, guilt, and survival.
CHARISMATIC CHARM (2018)
A short story of office power and quiet defiance.
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THE RECRUITER (2016)
A seemingly ordinary meeting in a Romford coffee shop slowly shifts into something far more unsettling.
YELLOW BABY (2015)
A sharp atmospheric short story about judgement, loneliness and the unexpected humanity found on a late night London train.
THE SOFT FATHER (2014)
RANCID MILK (2014)
A raw, haunting short story about guilt violence and the strange way grace can find even the worst in men.
ARACHNE AND ME (2013)
Retelling of a childhood story.
TULIP (2012)
THE LAST STAND (2010)
A lone spaceship has brought Earth to its knees and one broken woman maybe the key to everything.
THE LAST BUS (2009)
BLIND DATE (2006)
The Epitaph (2006)
When honouring a person’s true character becomes a little rebellion
THE SACRED TRILOGY (2004)
THE WHITE LIE (2004)
Some truths are harder to say than to carry.
LA DANSE DE FLIRTATION (2003)
Where flirtation ends and pride begins
NO NAZIS (2003)
Three women, three histories, one shared desk — and a moment that cannot be un-heard.
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THE PICTURE FRAME (2002)
As a mother prepares for a charity fundraiser and fusses over her son’s future, small domestic details begin to reveal something far deeper beneath the surface.
THE PORTRAIT (2002)
A confession, a daughter, a knock at the door — and a portrait that has been waiting decades to be seen.
NOT CHOSEN (1995)
A short story inspired by Pride and Prejudice; what if Elizabeth was not chosen.
SHRINKING VIOLET (1988)
A quiet schoolgirl, invisible to almost everyone, is forced into the harsh light when a terrible truth can no longer stay hidden.
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