Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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0:00 - explaining the incomprehensible plot
5:07 - meet our violet-eyed protagonist
5:57 - she has a mysterious past
7:43 - the most emo description of all time
9:51 - melodrama level 5000
11:52 - I was trying sooooo hard here lol
14:28 - flexing my descriptive 'skills'
15:51 - the worst dialogue you've ever read
17:24 - put this on 2012 tumblr
18:08 - wow this is so deep
19:08 - why is this so dramatic
19:40 - hilariously pointless narrative
20:14 - this is simply impossible
20:51 - the most dramatic thing of all time
22:16 - shoehorning some themes into the last paragraph

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MY SHORT STORIES:
☾Tabula Rasa - The Temz Review: thetemzreview.com/fiction-shaelin-bishop.html
☾How to Slaughter - The Common: thecommononline.org/how-to-slaughter
☾After Hours - Vagabond City Lit: vagabondcitylit.com/2022/04/18/after-hours-by-shaelin-bishop
☾Daughter of a King - Vagabond City Lit: vagabondcitylit.com/2022/03/21/daughter-of-a-king-by-shaelin-bishop
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/cherry-and-jane-in-the-garden-of-eden
☾Zugzwang - Plenitude: plenitudemagazine.ca/zugzwang
☾Elise Holding a Deer Mouse, 1829 - CAROUSEL: carouselmagazine.ca/c45-bishop
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/never-tell-you-this
☾Solarium - Minola Review: minolareview.com/shaelin-bishop
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/prism-58-3-sprawl-is-live
☾Wishbone - video reading: vimeo.com/420052282
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-till-i-see-the-light
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: roommagazine.com/issues/twine
☾How You'll Feel After the War - PRISM international: prismmagazine.ca/2021/10/20/prism-60-1-wonder

FAQS
→How old are you? - 26
→How long have you been writing? - Since I was 8
→Where do you live? - I keep that private for safety reasons, but I grew up in Vancouver.
→Where did you go to university and what did you study? - I keep my university information private, but I majored in writing with a concentration in fiction.
→What are your pronouns? - They/them or she/her
→Where can I read your books? - None of my books are published yet, but you can read my published short fiction in my linktree (linked above!)
→So when will your book be published? - I don’t know! I’m in the revision process right now, but I can’t predict exactly when I’ll have a book published. But I’m working on it!
→Do you plan to traditionally publish or self publish? - Traditionally publish
→Will you read my book/story/chapter/mentor me? - Unfortunately I cannot accommodate these requests because editing/critiquing is a labour intensive task that I can’t afford to do for free alongside my job, my own writing, and running this platform. If you would like to hire me for paid editing work, contact me privately on twitter or instagram.

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