Iain Kelly

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  • HARBINGER

    HARBINGER

    The following is an edited extract from my new novel, ‘State Of Denial‘, which is published tomorrow and is available to buy now on Amazon (see the links below). Harbinger noun: ‘A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.’ The sun reached its zenith in the clear blue sky.…

    Iain Kelly

    26/09/2019
    creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt
    #writephoto, amazon kindle, book, creative writing, dream, extract, Fiction, Flash Fiction, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, light, literature, novel, omen, paperback, published, release, Short Story, state of denial, story, sun, the state trilogy, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt
  • THE WAIT

    THE WAIT

    They wait. Rain starts to fall, umbrellas unfurl. The leaves overhead are golden-brown, autumnal. It seems appropriate. The mood is patient. They’ve waited this long, what’s another hour or two? Most are elderly. The young can’t stand around like this, they have to keep moving, keep hustling, to get through the day. A shuffle forward,…

    Iain Kelly

    25/09/2019
    creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story
    creative writing, Death, drabble, elderly, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gates, life, line, literature, meaning, old age, queue, Short Story, story, wait, waiting, Writing, writing prompt
  • STATE OF DENIAL – ONE WEEK TO GO

    STATE OF DENIAL – ONE WEEK TO GO

    Only one week to go until my new novel, ‘State of Denial’ is released in paperback and on Amazon Kindle. Watch the trailer: ‘State of Denial’ is the second book in ‘The State’ trilogy and picks up three years after the events of the first novel, ‘A Justified State’. It is election time in The…

    Iain Kelly

    20/09/2019
    creative writing, novel, Publishing, Writing
    amazon, amazon kindle, author, book, buy, coming soon, countdown, kindle, novel, order, paperback, pre-order, Publishing, release, self-publishing, state of denial, the state trilogy, Writing
  • A MURMUR

    A MURMUR

    He watched the black mass moving through the dawn sky. Backlit by the sun’s orange-yellow glow, the sweeping and swooping birds danced in uniformity. It was, he mused, a stunning example of the beauty that could be found in the world. But not for him. For him, beauty in life had ended. There was only…

    Iain Kelly

    19/09/2019
    creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt
    #writephoto, alzheimers, creative writing, Death, echo, ending, family, Farm, Fiction, field, Flash Fiction, life, literature, medical, mercy, murmur, murmuration, old age, rifle, senile, Short Story, starlings, story, suicide, sunrise, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt
  • 50/50

    50/50

    Todd cursed himself. He inched out further. The frame and glass creaked. He froze. He peered down, trying to make out the room below. It definitely wasn’t Lacey’s bedroom. She had told him the skylight on the left. Only now did he realise he didn’t know if that was left as he faced the house,…

    Iain Kelly

    18/09/2019
    creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story
    clandestine, comedy, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, glass, humor, humour, illicit, left, literature, love, panel, parents, right, Romance, room, Short Story, skylight, story, teenagers, Writing, writing prompt
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