Tag: bond

• SIGN YOUR NAME

  

  ‘Add your name.’ There wasn’t much space left on the walls. What had once been grey concrete was now covered in garish name-tags. I found a small corner. ‘Not there,’ Marguerite stopped me. ‘Front and centre.’ ‘There’s no space.’ ‘There’s always room for one more.’ The old lady pointed to a spot in the middle […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/04/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  bond, creative writing, culture, drug, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gang, grafetti, lady, literature, name, old, promise, reform, reformation, Short Story, social care, spray, story, welfare, Woman, word, Writing, writing prompt, youth

• ROOTS

  

  ‘Such beautiful hair. No idea where you get it from.’ Her father smiled down at her, running his fingers through her light natural curls. She sat on his knee looking up at his proud smile and bald head. What a mess she thought, staring in the mirror. Dressed in black, her hair a tangled mess […]

  Iain Kelly

  08/01/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  aging, bond, creative writing, daughter, family, father, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, funeral, growing up, hair, life, literature, love, metaphor, natural, relationship, roots, Short Story, story, style, Writing, writing prompt