Category: creative writing

• GATHERING AT THE CAFE ROUGE

  

  Typical. Hours of practice on facial proportions, angles and shadows wasted. She’d spent so long getting the nose and mouth just right on each person in the scene. She sighed and mixed the colours. Plenty of medical light blue for most. A couple of brighter hues for the more imaginative people. A small rectangle added…

  Iain Kelly

  22/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  amend, art, artist, blue, cafe, change, colour, coronavirus, covid-19, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, literature, mask, medical, new normal, painting, palette, pandemic, portrait, real life, scene, Short Story, story, wear, Writing, writing prompt

• BOOK REVIEW: LAYLA’S SONG by PAUL McCRACKEN

  

  The Blurb: Michael is a family man, working long hours to provide for his family. Things take a dark turn when he and his family are subject to a series of threatening and intimidating phone calls, claiming Michael is not who he says he is. One night, when Michael is out, his home is attacked…

  Iain Kelly

  18/07/2020

  book review, Books, creative writing, Literature, novel, Review, Writing

  #amreading, #amwriting, action, book, book review, creative writing, crime, drugs, ireland, kidnap, layla’s song, literature, novel, paul mccracken, Publishing, ransom, reading, revenge, Review, self-publishing, thriller, violence, Writing

• GLISTENING WAVES

  

  ‘You never listen.’ Glisten. The sun dancing on the water. ‘You’re never there.’ Dare. The cold water round his ankles. ‘I’ve been having an affair.’ Stare. A line of rocks breaking the water in the distance. ‘The children will stay with me.’ Free. His body weightless in the water. ‘I want you out.’ Doubt. Arms…

  Iain Kelly

  16/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #amwriting, #writephoto, affair, alone, creative writing, depression, drowning, Fiction, Flash Fiction, free verse, glisten, listen, literature, marriage, over, poet, poetry, relationship, rhyme, sand, sea, separation, Short Story, story, suicide, sun, Thursday Photo Prompt, verse, water, waves, Writing, writing prompt

• THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

  

  He was sweating. His back ached. His arms couldn’t carry the heavy parcel much further along the pedestrianised street. 4300, 4301, 4302… Almost there. He didn’t think about the walk back to the start of the street that awaited. His car was parked outside house No.1. 4376. He had made it. He dropped the parcel…

  Iain Kelly

  15/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, delivery, drabble, effort, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gate, humor, humour, job, literature, online, parcel, pedestrianised, postman, redelivery, shopping, Short Story, story, street, twice, walk, work, Writing, writing prompt

• Author Interview: Iain Kelly

  Originally posted on Rambles, writing and amusing musings: Welcome to another episode of Author Interviews… I have a great one today. Please welcome Iain Kelly, author of The State series. The footpath I am walking along is awfully clean and awfully quiet. In fact, I don’t see anyone around at all. Large buildings tower over…

  Iain Kelly

  13/07/2020

  creative writing