Tag: choice

• A STARK CHOICE

  

  The contrast of the plain below was stark. Beyond the edge of the forest, across the boundary to the other country, there lay only barren, empty land. Parched and dry it would provide for no man. The drums of war beat on. He can hear them getting louder behind him. The choice is clear, the…

  Iain Kelly

  01/11/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• THE FALL

  

  The car swept him through the city. As he looked out he saw the city he had built. The banks, the hotels, the casinos – he owned a piece of all of them. An empire that seemed impregnable. An empire that could no longer protect him. He thought back. That weekend in the country. Meeting…

  Iain Kelly

  27/09/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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