Tag: candle

• CAST OUT THE LIGHT

  

  They stood on the shore and watched the last lights float away on the tide. Their glow faded and the dark night took hold, the dark night that would last forever. It had been prophesied: cast out all light and let the dark rule. They would be rewarded when he came for them. Only the […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/08/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• LOVE

  

  ‘Fifty-nine dead. Five hundred injured.’ Hannah says it more to herself than anyone else. ‘Terrorists again?’ the young girl playing on the floor asks her. ‘Just a man with a gun.’ ‘It’s never going to stop, is it, Mum?’ ‘It hasn’t stopped since time began. All this violence toward each other,’ she shakes her head. […]

  Iain Kelly

  02/10/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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