Tag: daughter

• MOLLY

  

  She stood at the window looking out at the harbour. They told her to give up. They told her there was no hope. Years had gone by. They’d lost her Molly once before when she wandered off into the woods and didn’t return. She was found the next day in her bivouac of branches and…

  Iain Kelly

  26/11/2017

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

  Boat, creative writing, daughter, Death, disappeared, Fiction, Flash Fiction, harbor, harbour, lighthouse, literature, lost at sea, love, missing, mother, sail, sea wall, ship, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, Writing, writing prompt

• LOVE

  

  ‘Fifty-nine dead. Five hundred injured.’ Hannah says it more to herself than anyone else. ‘Terrorists again?’ the young girl playing on the floor asks her. ‘Just a man with a gun.’ ‘It’s never going to stop, is it, Mum?’ ‘It hasn’t stopped since time began. All this violence toward each other,’ she shakes her head.…

  Iain Kelly

  02/10/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  candle, creative writing, daughter, defiance, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, hate, innocence, las vegas, literature, love, mother, peace, peaceful, protest, remembrance, Short Story, story, violence, Writing, writing prompt

• BEST FORGOTTEN

  

  Lillian stared at the incongruous door. Why had it been added to the old stone entrance? Why the rusty chain in front of it? She ran back to her father. ‘If there is a door, why does there need to be a chain?’ she asked. Her father looked down at her. ‘So that no one gets…

  Iain Kelly

  23/11/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  black comedy, creative writing, crime, dark humour, daughter, door, father, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, literature, mother, murder, mystery, Short Story, story, Writing