Silcox, Beejay Rebecca-Jo2022-03-222022-03-222017-03-21vt_gsexam:10487http://hdl.handle.net/10919/109380Secure the Shadow is a collection of short-shorts and flash fiction, which draws heavily on the conventions of fables, parables and fairy tales to consider modern themes, desires and cruelties. The collection is linked by a meta-fictional fascination with the act of storytelling -- the liminal psychological space between the real and unreal, fantasy and delusion, seen and unseen, predator and prey. The collection also maps the topography of loss -- it explores what it means, and how it feels, to lose and to be lost.ETDIn Copyrightflash fictionmeta-fictionfairy talesThesis