Tag: creative writing

• THE ISLAND BETWEEN

  

  Patrick ran along the path, hands spread wide, feeling the tall rapeseed through his fingers. The sky was a deep blue, the sun was shining. It felt good to be out of the stuffy house. For the first time in a week the wind direction on the island had changed and the radioactivity levels had…

  Iain Kelly

  15/02/2018

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

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• ENOUGH ALREADY

  

  Snow. Again. Christmas had been magical. Days off school in January building snowmen had been fun. Now it was February. The thought of ice cold hands and toes put him off going outside. The roads were closed. Elsa had put ‘Frozen’ on for the hundredth time. Football practice had been cancelled for the third week in…

  Iain Kelly

  14/02/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• SCARRED

  For years they had called him a freak because he looked different. No friends, no relationships, cast aside by an uncaring society. His mother’s love was the only one he’d known, caring for him, nurturing him, protecting him, until she was gone too soon. Then loneliness in an unforgiving world. He longed to join in…

  Iain Kelly

  12/02/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• LIVING IT UP AT THE HOTEL INFERNO

  

  Frank opened his door, bleary-eyed, towel over shoulder, wash bag in hand. The queue for the bathroom stretched down the corridor, the usual faces. He nodded to a few as he walked past and reached the end of the line. Hot cobbles burned the souls of his feet, singeing the flesh. Others swayed from side-to-side…

  Iain Kelly

  11/02/2018

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

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• SANCTUARY

  

  He cowered in the shadows. Outside he could hear the screams and the howling. The others had left him. They promised to return by nightfall. Until then he was on his own. Footsteps pounded past the opening. He held his breath until they faded away. How long did he have left? How long before they…

  Iain Kelly

  08/02/2018

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

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