Tag: bed

• OPEN DOOR

  

  It always followed the same pattern. Middle of the night. Panicked phone call. Incoherent story. She always ended up agreeing to go over. This is different. Door wide open. Probably just a neighbour didn’t close it right. Out of habit she checks the mailbox. Empty. Up the stairs, lit by flickering halogen. Along the corridor.…

  Iain Kelly

  03/03/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, abduction, agent, aid, bed, call, creative writing, door, drama, dread, empty, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flat, Friday Fictioneers, help, literature, mailbox, missing, nightmare, panic, paranoia, pattern, phone, routine, Short Story, story, taken, thriller, Writing, writing prompt

• INTIMATE

  

  Could you be this intimate with anyone else? Anyone apart from your lifelong best friend? She had been with plenty of men, in relationships and one night stands. She had never felt anything like this. She looked over at her. She was staring back at her. They were thinking the same thing. It felt right.…

  Iain Kelly

  07/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, bed, capitol, comforting, creative writing, democracy, equality, erotic, explicit, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friendship, gay, intimate, lesbian, LGBQT+, life, literature, new dawn, news, passion, politics, protest, relationship, rights, riots, sex, sexual, sheets, Short Story, story, stranger, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• THE RACE

  

  Rain batters off the window. I lie in bed listening to it. It is my favourite sound, until I remember I have to get up and go out. I get up and pull on layers of clothing. Definitely a day for a hat and jacket and gloves. Then into the car, with just a piece…

  Iain Kelly

  17/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Non-fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, bed, covid-19, creative writing, event, exercise, exuberant, Fiction, fitness, Flash Fiction, great scottish run, jogging, literature, mass, miserable, non-fiction, normal, pandemic, participation, race, rain, running, scotland, Short Story, sport, start, story, warm-up, weather, Writing, writing prompt

• DREAMING OF HEATHER

  

  The bed sheets are damp with sweat. The muggy, warm air offers no relief. I unwrap myself and lie on top of the duvet. This weather has to break soon. It isn’t just the close atmosphere that has made me sweat. I had been dreaming of her again. Vague images of my dream come back…

  Iain Kelly

  02/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #amwriting, #writephoto, bed, creative writing, dream, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grass, hallucination, heart, heather, life, literature, loss, love, lust, passion, purple, rain, Romance, Short Story, story, sweat, thunder, Thursday Photo Prompt, weather, Writing, writing prompt