Iain Kelly

NATIVES

Unbowed, unbroken, persevering. From haunted past to uncertain future. They cling to what little life offers. Restless spirits, wandering. Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt was: Restless. Click on the link to read more stories by other writers. If you’re interested in finding out more about my ‘State Trilogy’ novels, I’m…

Iain Kelly

25/04/2021

creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

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THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: U

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

24/04/2021

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: T

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

23/04/2021

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: S

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

22/04/2021

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
IN THE LAND OF THE GIANT GERBILS

Floating along on a bed of epicurean marshmallows, Malcolm IV, king of the giant gerbils, nibbled on a lovely stilton and ordered the destruction of Paris by his army of flying pigs armed with lances and flame throwers. In the Kingdom of the Glowing Eggs, the latest crop of chimeras – half voluptuous maidens, half…

Iain Kelly

21/04/2021

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

#fowc, acid, bad, cheese, comedy, creative writing, drabble, dreams, drugs, eggs, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gerbils, hallucination, humor, humour, imagery, immutable, limb, literature, lsd, madness, paris, pigs, reality, Short Story, story, surreal, trip, trippy, Writing, writing prompt

NATIVES

THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: U

THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: T

THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: S

IN THE LAND OF THE GIANT GERBILS