Iain Kelly

THE SNITCH

‘All you have to do is tell them exactly what I told you.’ It was easy for him to say. I was a snitch, everyone knew I was a snitch, that’s why they were using me, but I liked to think I was an honest snitch. I didn’t tell the detective anything that wasn’t true.…

Iain Kelly

22/01/2021

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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THE RETURN

‘She’s back.’ The word went out. Of course, she’d never really been away. She had always been there, in our hearts and in our minds and in everything we thought and did. The last few years had been tough. Many had suffered. We clung on to the hope that she would one day return to…

Iain Kelly

21/01/2021

#writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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THE LOSING BATTLE

‘I don’t want to be pedantic, but that isn’t what happened.’ ‘It was, I heard it with my own ears.’ ‘Right, but factually, that isn’t what happened. Who did you hear it from?’ ‘A guy I know that was there.’ ‘Could he maybe have made it up, or not got the full story? Because, again,…

Iain Kelly

21/01/2021

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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THE WRONG GUY

The man arrived in reception and shouted his name. ‘Guy?’ He stood up and walked towards him, ‘Hello.’ ‘This way, we haven’t got much time.’ Odd, he thought, his interview for a BBC accountant job wasn’t for another twenty minutes. They hurried along corridors. ‘It’ll be Karen interviewing you. Just give her the answers and…

Iain Kelly

20/01/2021

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

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CONFUSED ME(ME)

‘You’re a meme!’ said Agnes. ‘A what-what now?’ said Archie. ‘A meme. That photo of you from Christmas last year?’ ‘The one where I was dressed up in your…’ ‘No, not that one.’ ‘Because that was just for playing the dame in the panto.’ ‘Yes, dear. No, the one where you opened the present from…

Iain Kelly

19/01/2021

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THE SNITCH

THE RETURN

THE LOSING BATTLE

THE WRONG GUY

CONFUSED ME(ME)