Tag: classic

• HERE’S LOOKIN’ AT YOU, KID

  

  ‘We’ve checked everywhere, Sam, it ain’t here,’ said Ruth. I dropped the sledgehammer. ‘Alright Gutman, where is it?’ ‘I told you. Ask Cairo. He knows, not me.’ ‘Cairo’s dead. So’s Archer. You’re responsible. Now cough up the statue.’ ‘Poor Mr. Spade. You’re nothing but a clueless gumshoe.’ ‘The Falcon, where is it?’ I aimed the…

  Iain Kelly

  11/12/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• STRAWBERRY SWING

  

  She’d had the idea while watching a gardening magazine show – apparently plants had emotions and responded to music and words. Perfect. She stripped down the old grand piano, rejigged the strings and hammers, filled it with grade-A compost and planted the seeds. She soon had a playlist – Rachmaninoff and Chopin went down best…

  Iain Kelly

  13/03/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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