Tag: aeroplane

• EXTENDED VACATION

  

  Archie strolled back from the shop, newspaper under his arm. Another fine Mediterranean morning. In the campervan, Agnes was still in bed. Archie settled down in his seat to read the headlines. Iran had retaliated against America with missile fire. A commercial aeroplane had gone down. He turned the page. Bush fires in Australia. Not…

  Iain Kelly

  08/01/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  aeroplane, affairs, America, australia, bush fires, climate change, crash, creative writing, Dark humor, disaster, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, floods, Friday Fictioneers, global warming, holiday, indonesia, iran, Iraq, life, literature, missiles, New year, politics, real world, reality, Short Story, state, story, vacation, war, world, Writing, writing prompt

• PROVIDENCE

  

  He was taken aback, seeing it suspended from the ceiling among the other examples of World War II fighters. The aeroplane had been dredged up from the English Channel, where it had sat undisturbed on the sea bed for forty years. The bullet holes that had ripped open the fuselage and destroyed the engine had…

  Iain Kelly

  14/05/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  aeronautics, aeroplane, air corps, american, channel, creative writing, Death, ditching, dogfight, eject, enemy, english, fate, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, flight, german, literature, museum, museum of flight, parachute, providence, Short Story, story, survive, u.s. army, vageries, war, world war 2, Writing, writing prompt

• REBUILDING

  

  The new Buckingham Palace looked exactly like the old one had from the air. The last remnants of the construction site had almost gone, only a large fence remained, to be removed before the official opening next week. The pilot brought the Boeing 787 Dreamliner round in another long circle over the city as he waited…

  Iain Kelly

  23/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

  aeroplane, bomb, buckingham palace, creative writing, explosion, Flash Fiction, literature, london, monarchy, pilot, plane, rebuilding, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, terrorism, Writing