Category: Three Things Challenge

• CHRISTMAS PARTY

  

  Impetuous Iain faced ignominy when, after several false starts, he rashly pinned his lips on Jolly Jennifer’s mouth in the middle of the dance floor. The footfall of the crowd faded as onlookers backed away and waited for the bomb to explode, which it duly did. In retaliation, Jennifer delivered several slaps to Iain’s head,…

  Iain Kelly

  17/12/2020

  #fowc, #YDWordPrompt, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge, Word of the Day Challenge

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• DOUBLE JEOPARDY

  

  Tap, tap, tap. The soft knocking on the door. Laurie pulled herself up from the sofa and glanced in the mirror. What a mess. She had let herself go during lockdown, not that she had made much effort beforehand. She took another swig from the vodka bottle and tried to flatten her hair. She adjusted…

  Iain Kelly

  23/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

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• TIME

  

  Too old. Her back was killing her. She straightened up and stretched. This would be the last year. Next summer she would need to get some help in, or let the garden grow wild. Maybe that was the answer. Time to give up trying to control everything. Time to just go with whatever will be,…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

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• ILL-GOTTEN GAINS

  

  Her Mum helped her bake the pastries using the rhubarb they had grown in their garden. Each had their own neat tray – rhubarb crumble, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb and toffee cake. She set up the stall at the corner of her street, waiting to capitalise on the Friday, end-of-week rush hour footfall. ‘Treat for the…

  Iain Kelly

  02/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, bake, business, cake, chocolate, comedy, creative writing, entrepreneur, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, pie, profit, rhubarb, sale, Short Story, skim, stall, story, sweets, Three Things Challenge, toffee, Writing, writing prompt

• A FUTILE LIFE

  

  It was time to give up. Admit defeat. Accept the desolation. The whole thing was futile. Life was futile. It was just another thing, on top of everything else, that made him angry about this year. A year of pandemic, riots, protests, more Brexit, more Trump, more Boris. Was it no wonder the country was…

  Iain Kelly

  25/09/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 2020, 3TC, brexit, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, futile, humiliation, humor, humour, literature, mad, pandemic, panic, panic buying, short, Short Story, story, supermarket, tall, Three Things Challenge, toilet paper, toilet roll, top shelf, Writing, writing prompt