Tag: animals

• MARKET TRADE

  

  The sights and smells of the small market were intoxicating. The constant chatter of humans mixed with the sounds of caged animals. Xao Ling dragged him along. ‘Here,’ he pointed. An old woman sat surrounded by pots of powders and liquids. Her skin was a patchwork of wrinkles, her eyes half-closed slits, her hair was…

  Iain Kelly

  01/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  animals, asia, black market, china, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humankind, hunting, illegal, ivory, literature, market, medicine, poaching, potion, remedies, Short Story, story, trade, traditional, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt, xinhua

• FARMER BARRY

  When he was a small boy, Barry loved playing with the toy farm his father made for him. He tended to the small cows, sheep and pigs, drove the tractor, mucked out the stables and fed the horses. Sometimes his father would join him, but after his parents divorce he sat playing on his own.…

  Iain Kelly

  01/10/2017

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

  animals, black comedy, childhood, creative writing, Dark humor, evil, Farm, farm playset, farmer, Farming, father, Fiction, Flash Fiction, horror, humor, humour, literature, mental illness, murder, playset, psychopath, psychotic, Short Story, sick, son, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, taxidermy, Writing, writing prompt