Tag: creative writing
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FAMILY REMAINS
After Dad had passed away, it fell to Dave to empty out the family home. In the garden shed, Dave looked at the collection of oil cans. There was no use for them now and they weren’t worth anything. He picked up one and opened the lid. There wasn’t oil inside, it was something else.…
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THE VISIT
We were still heading away from the private beach, the staff on the sand were dots in the distance. ‘Shouldn’t we turn back now, Dad?’ He only smiled and carried on rowing, ‘Just a little further.’ Should I be panicking? This wasn’t some mad attempt at reaching another country, was it? ‘I’ve had enough, Dad.…
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WOMAN ‘PROVES’ NESSIE EXISTS
“Man ‘Definitely’ Saw Aliens!” “Doctor ‘Heals’ With Touch Alone!” “Scientists ‘Travel’ Back In Time!” The Editor-in-Chief threw the papers across the room as he spat out each headline. “It would be nice, just once, to have a front page that was genuine and didn’t require quotation marks for legal reasons.” “Remember we did try that,…
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HIDDEN
She sneaked away from the rest of the group as they splashed around in the water. ‘Come on, Alice,’ beckoned her friends. It was not often they got the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine by the river. Enthusiasm had got the better of one, then two, and soon all their clothes lay in a pile…
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UNITED IN LOVE
‘Meet me at our favourite spot,’ she wrote two weeks ago. Today was the appointed time. She sat by the river watching the water rushing along, mirroring the tumult in her heart. Here they had first fallen in love, before circumstance and war had torn them apart. She lay on the grass, listening to the…
Iain Kelly 