Iain Kelly

THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER

The light glowed out of the fog as it turned. He knocked the door. An old man answered. ‘I was expecting Donnie.’ ‘He quit.’ He led him inside. ‘You need a tour?’ ‘I’ll figure it out.’ ‘Fair enough. See you in a month.’ The solitude enveloped him. Bliss. Lockdown had shown him the path to…

Iain Kelly

08/05/2021

creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

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A CHANGE OF SCENERY

‘Are we there yet?’ Archie asked. He was feeling claustrophobic in the hermetically-sealed caravan. Agnes peered out the kitchen window as the countryside whizzed by along the autoroute, ‘Not yet, just passed Paris.’ ‘Maybe we should have picked somewhere closer than the Mediterranean?’ ‘You wanted warm sunshine and the beach.’ Agnes brought the coffee over…

Iain Kelly

05/05/2021

creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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LOCAL HERO

‘Always was a wayward child, that one.’ ‘This is a little something more than wayward.’ ‘I remember him growing up around here. Always in trouble, stealing sweets, ringing doorbells.’ ‘I’m not sure that childhood pranks would lead to this.’ ‘You gotta stop ’em when their young. Learn ’em early to respect people.’ ‘I wonder how…

Iain Kelly

01/05/2021

creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

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THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Z

My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

Iain Kelly

30/04/2021

A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

#amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing
THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Y

My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

Iain Kelly

29/04/2021

A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

#amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing

THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER

A CHANGE OF SCENERY

LOCAL HERO

THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Z

THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Y