Category: Flash Fiction

• MAYBE IT WAS THE RAIN

  I kept the date. It was our last chance. Your last chance. If you don’t show up this time then I’ll know for sure. Fifteen years since the High School prom. We were perfect. You wanted to be with me. Why should that have changed? So every year, on the anniversary of that evening, I […]

  Iain Kelly

  05/10/2022

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, dark, date, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humour, hurricane, literature, media, rain, Short Story, social, stalker, stood up, story, weather, Writing, writing prompt

• AGALMATOPHILIA

  The old-timer doddered into the shop, heading straight for the wedding dress on the mannequin in the window. He stared at it, his eyes dewy. His hand reached out to touch the material. Marge went over to him. ‘Can I help you?’ ‘Thank you, dear. Just reminded me of something.’ ‘Your wedding day?’ she smiled […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/06/2022

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, dark, dark comedy, Dark humor, fetish, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hidden, humour, literature, sex, Short Story, story, Writing, writing prompt

• INTERVENTION

  

  Moonlight glinted off her pale body. The time for sacrifice was upon them. She squirmed and pulled against the ropes that bound her wrists and ankles. A chant was intoned around her by the hooded wraith-like figures, gradually increasing in volume and intensity. The leader of the group, marked by his impressive horned headpiece stepped […]

  Iain Kelly

  23/03/2022

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  adventure, agnes, agnes and archie, Archie, comedy, creative writing, daydream, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hero, holiday, humour, literature, ruins, Short Story, story, tour, tourguide, vacation, Writing, writing prompt

• BIRTHDAY PARTY

  

  Darlene, with a pink bow in her hair, was spun round three times before she stumbled towards the donkey picture. While everyone was distracted, Marcus and Tommy dipped their fingers into the cake icing and savoured the sweet sugar rush. Penny stood by the railings in a huff after she had lost out on Pass […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/05/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  children, concealed, creative writing, crime, criminal, dark, dormant, drabble, evil, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, illicit, literature, nasty, party, peadophile, repressed, sexual, shocking, Short Story, story, suppressed, trauma, urge, wicked, Writing, writing prompt

• THE GRAVEDIGGER

  

  This was the tree alright, the dead one with no leaves. Streetlight nearby, no need for the torch I had brought. A night of hard labour ahead, best get to it. Sweat and dirt, clanging metal on rocky, hard ground. Takes longer than you think to dig a deep grave. At three in the morning […]

  Iain Kelly

  03/04/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  body, buried, creative writing, criminal, dark, dawn, disposal, drabble, dusk, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, grave, gravedigger, illegal, labour, light, literature, money, night, noir, questions, Short Story, shovel, story, streetlight, tree, work, worker, Writing, writing prompt