Tag: body

• THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS

  

  A body of work. That’s all I have at the end. All of it in the past. What will the future hold? I gave everything, at the expense of family and friends and love and finally, life. All to achieve the goal. The goal set by my leader. Did I do it for my country? […]

  Iain Kelly

  07/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, apocalypse, armageddon, atomic, body, bomb, creative writing, Death, destroyer, Destruction, doomsday, Fiction, Flash Fiction, fusion, future, history, human, leader, literature, Nature, nuclear, pride, revolution, sci-fi, science, science fiction, Short Story, sin, story, war, world, Writing, writing prompt

• SILO

  

  Hazy streaks blurred her vision. She stumbled on weighed down by her burden. The silo was there, as she remembered it, offering sanctuary as it had done when she was a child. She staggered inside. She embraced the dark coolness and dropped the heavy weight. She regrouped. Her parents hadn’t seen her in years. She […]

  Iain Kelly

  19/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  body, burden, creative writing, Dark humor, Death, disposal, drabble, drama, Farm, farmhouse, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, home, husband, literature, murder, parents, sanctuary, Short Story, silo, storage, story, Writing, writing prompt

• THE GRAVEDIGGER

  

  This was the tree alright, the dead one with no leaves. Streetlight nearby, no need for the torch I had brought. A night of hard labour ahead, best get to it. Sweat and dirt, clanging metal on rocky, hard ground. Takes longer than you think to dig a deep grave. At three in the morning […]

  Iain Kelly

  03/04/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• WHAT LIES BENEATH

  

  **This is an excerpt from my new novel, ‘A Justified State’.** He raised his hand to shield his eyes from the water spray as the launch drew closer to the base of the towering wall. He could make out the gate that was lodged halfway open. The water lapped around the base as the pressure […]

  Iain Kelly

  13/12/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Literature, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, a justified state, beneath, body, conspiracy, creative writing, Death, discovery, dystopia, dystopian, excerpt, Fiction, Flash Fiction, future, literature, murder, novel, Publishing, scene, sci-fi, science fiction, Thursday Photo Prompt, water, Writing, writing prompt

• THE ROAD WELL TRAVELLED

  

  The affair had been stupid, a typical middle-aged spasm to prove there was still life in the old dog. The grey tarmac rolled on in front of him, miles of it already lay behind. On the horizon ahead, blue sky met blue sea. ‘Why the hire car?’ she had asked when she had picked him […]

  Iain Kelly

  23/09/2018

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

  affair, body, car, concealment, creative writing, crime, disposal, Fiction, Flash Fiction, fling, literature, love, lust, manhood, marriage, mid-life crisis, murder, road, sea, serial killer, sex, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, sunshine, Writing, writing prompt