Month: January 2021

• #NowWithAdded… Dystopian

  

  Originally posted on Fiction Can Be Fun:
  What I absolutely love about this feature is the responses we receive are so terrifically varied. Even knowing that authors are individual and unique, you never know what to expect… and that aspect delights me. Opening this feature for 2021 is Iain Kelly, whose dystopian work The State…

  Iain Kelly

  31/01/2021

  creative writing

• GUARDED OPTIMISM

  

  They emerged from their shelters. Some more guarded than others. The younger ones, of course, were more exuberant. They shook hands, hugged and kissed and breathed in the fresh air. I squinted into the light and adjusted my facemask with my gloved hands. We had been told it was safe to come back above ground. […]

  Iain Kelly

  28/01/2021

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, air, creative writing, dystopian, end, facemask, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gloves, guarded, literature, optimism, pandemic, rock, shelter, Short Story, story, underground, vaccine, virus, wild, wilderness, Writing, writing prompt

• A FEW TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES

  

  Last week had gone so well. Seeing all the regular faces, some on grainy webcams, some in the synagogue. It felt good to preach again. Now, the loudspeaker wouldn’t switch on, he’d forgotten the login for his Zoom account and the wi-fi kept dropping out. ‘I think I’ve found your problem.’ Ben got up from […]

  Iain Kelly

  27/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, broken, comedy, creative writing, electrical, Fiction, fix, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, issue, jewish, literature, mend, preach, rabbi, religious, sermon, Short Story, story, synagogue, Technology, water, Writing, writing prompt

• SELF DISCOVERY

  

  ‘You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.’ ‘So that’s a no then?’ ‘You’re damn right that’s a no.’ I had only asked for a […]

  Iain Kelly

  26/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, ant, chuck palahniuk, creative writing, cubicle, depressing, despair, Fiction, fight club, Flash Fiction, funeral, image, leave, life, literature, office, realisation, self, Short Story, snowflake, story, trapped, uniform, unique, worker, Writing, writing prompt

• #IndieSpotlight: The State Trilogy from Iain Kelly

  

  Originally posted on Fiction Can Be Fun:
  #IndieSpotlight is a new feature we’ve added to the FCBF portfolio for 2021. In truth, I can’t believe we’ve not done so earlier as there’s so much fine work from #WritingCommunity being independently published. We’re especially delighted to kick off the feature with one of our favourite writers…

  Iain Kelly

  24/01/2021

  creative writing