Tag: alien

• INVASION

  

  Forage duty. They try to tell you it’s a privilege, an honour. You’re special, a chosen one. The truth is it’s dangerous. You’re expendable and you’re exposed. Return empty-handed and you will be punished. That’s why I’m still out here as the light fails, still hunting. They only come for us at night. It’s suicide […]

  Iain Kelly

  11/04/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  alien, creative writing, danger, darkness, duty, dystopia, expendable, Fiction, Flash Fiction, food, forage, honour, invaders, invasion, killed, literature, love, night, nightfall, sacrifice, sammiscribbles, Short Story, story, survival, weekend writing prompt, world, Writing, writing prompt

• SURVIVAL

  

  I tried not to vomit as I peeled the fetid sock away from my foot. It came off in tattered patches, stuck to the putrid flesh underneath. The pain was excruciating. I had to look. It wasn’t my foot any longer. I didn’t recognise it. It was just a lump of red-purple meat. There were […]

  Iain Kelly

  30/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, action, alien, Bones, creative writing, Death, drama, earth, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flesh, foot, hill, human, hunt, injury, invasion, kill, literature, mountain, putrid, sci-fi, science fiction, sentinel, Short Story, skin, Species, story, survival, thriller, Writing, writing prompt

• SURMISE

  

  Surmise: noun, to suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.”he surmised that something must be wrong.” See also: guess, conjecture, suspect. I surmise that there is intelligent life form other than ourselves somewhere out there in the universe. I surmise that there is a God, or some God or all the […]

  Iain Kelly

  06/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, accuse, alien, alternative facts, America, boris johnson, brexit, britain, comedy, conjecture, creative writing, election, elvis, evidence, fact, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flat earth, God, guess, humor, humour, john lennon, literature, michael jackson, non-fiction, religion, Short Story, Space, story, surmise, trump, universe, Writing, writing prompt

• HEAVENS ABOVE!

  

  ‘There it is! The portal! We are saved!’ ‘It’s not a portal, it’s a gap in the clouds.’ ‘We haven’t seen a gap in the clouds for three years. It must be a sign from above!’ ‘From who exactly?’ ‘Why, from our saviour of course. Don’t you believe?!’ ‘After the plagues, the earthquakes, the drought, […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/03/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, alien, apocalypse, cloud, comedy, creative writing, dark, disaster, drought, earthquake, Extinction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, floods, God, heaven, humor, humour, hurricane, lambent, light, literature, Plague, religion, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• FREE STATE

  

  He stood in the doorway of his homestead, looking out at his land. The sweat poured from his bronzed head, the receding hairline exposing his scalp to the sun. In his hand he held the machete. Blood dripped from the point of the blade, pooling on the steps at his feet. The stench of fresh, […]

  Iain Kelly

  18/01/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  alien, allegory, black, cattle, creative writing, Crops, defend, Farm, farmland, Fiction, Flash Fiction, free state, homestead, invaders, land, literature, mars, martian, parable, reclaimed, sci-fi, Short Story, slaughter, south africa, story, war, war of the worlds, What Pegman Saw, white, Writing, writing prompt