Tag: commemoration

• ARMY OF SHADOWS

  

  Private Michael Boyd was not cut out for war. Or for a life in the army for that matter. He was too slight in build, too short in stature and too vibrant in spirit. But when war was announced he signed up, caught up in the fervour of patriotism. He had never met a German…

  Iain Kelly

  15/11/2018

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

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• D IS FOR DRESDEN, GERMANY

  

  A STORY OF DÉTENTE IN DRESDEN, GERMANY Alan Smith stood among the locals of Dresden in the reconstructed Neumarkt, looking with the crowd towards the Frauenkirche with its wondrous dome topped by a golden cross gleaming in the dusk sky.  The dignitaries were filing into the building, German mainly but also religious leaders from far…

  Iain Kelly

  04/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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