Tag: declaration of independence

• CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

  

  Rodney asked him to watch his pretzel cart while he took a break. It was another humid night. Larry sat on the wall and rested his weary feet. He looked up at the statue with the Rockefeller building behind it. A huge white face with white hands covering the eyes. Ain’t that the truth, Larry…

  Iain Kelly

  17/07/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• A STARK CHOICE

  

  The contrast of the plain below was stark. Beyond the edge of the forest, across the boundary to the other country, there lay only barren, empty land. Parched and dry it would provide for no man. The drums of war beat on. He can hear them getting louder behind him. The choice is clear, the…

  Iain Kelly

  01/11/2018

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

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