Tag: convention

• STOP THE BOATS

  The Home Secretary sat down to her meal in the grand hotel ballroom. The day had gone well. ‘STOP THE BOATS’: the perfect slogan to win back their core voters. Some of those irritating lawyers and activists and soft left-y socialists had bleated on about the European Convention of Human Rights, and breaking international law,…

  Iain Kelly

  08/03/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE ACTIVIST

  

  Her little hands scrawl circles. She places an assortment of toys inside them – Lego, a pencil. a toy truck. She babbles in words that make sense to only her. She looks up seeking recognition for a job well done. I nod and smile and say that’s lovely. She accepts it and begins the process…

  Iain Kelly

  03/11/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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