Tag: attack

• DEFIANCE

  

  They sat by the sea watching children play on the beach. ‘Alright?’ he put his arm around her shoulder. The tears slowly running down her face gave him his answer. It had taken her twenty years to return. Years of pain and guilt. She had been their teacher. They had trusted in her. She was…

  Iain Kelly

  23/05/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• AMAZONIA

  5th July 1592 We continue to follow De Orellana. The river seems to be endless. It has been seven months since we set out. Today we were attacked by a group of savages. Without a common language took us for enemies. They hurled sharpened rocks as we fled back to the boat. It was not the men that…

  Iain Kelly

  25/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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