Banished and pregnant, a young woman ascends a treacherous mountainside to a sacred Cairn, where a spectral guardian holds the fate of her unborn child.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
17pp
Genre:
Fantasy
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
Set in a remote and ancient Scottish Highland village, 'The Cairn' follows a young woman cast out by her husband after he discovers she carries another man's child. Rejected and shamed, she embarks on a desperate journey up the mountainside to the Cairn—a sacred place of judgment watched over by a spectral guardian. Battling exhaustion, shame, and the elements, she must confront her past and plead for her unborn child’s life in a world where myth and morality collide.

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The Writer: Robin Johnston

Robin Johnston is an award-winning Street Photographer and Videographer with a BA in Film and Photography. His work has been shown at world-class exhibitions in Rome, Berlin, New York and London. He also writes screenplays. Robin’s work captures the beauty in tiny detail, the patterns in the built environment and the way humans interact with architecture. His influences are Brassaï and Cartier-Bresson and the works of J.G.Ballard. Go to bio
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