Tag: causeway

• THE WAY ACROSS THE WATER

  

  They called it a victory. It didn’t feel like a victory to him. He had seen to much to call it a victory. The bombed-out buildings; the fighting; the gunshots; the gas; the bombs; the dead bodies; the dead soldiers, theirs and his own comrades; the bloodshed; the injured; the children crying in the streets;…

  Iain Kelly

  07/05/2020

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• MOTHER’S DAY

  

  Mum stopped on the wooden causeway. The wind swept the water over the sides, lapping at our feet. Through the grey mist, a man stood. He wore a grey fedora and trench coat. Mum put her arms round my shoulders as he approached. ‘You shouldn’t have taken the kid. He might have let you go,…

  Iain Kelly

  26/03/2017

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

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