Tag: defiance

• W IS FOR WARSAW, POLAND

  

  A SCENE OF DIALOGUE FROM WAR-TORN WARSAW 18th April 1943; The Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland Jakub, Benjamin and Stefan sit around a table, cramped in the small room, with no lighting. ‘What do we do, let them take us? Then we are as good as dead already.’ ‘If we resist they will kill us where […]

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• A MORNING STROLL THROUGH A BRITISH TOWN

  

  The snow was turning to slush and melting away, the festive decorations hung limply. The long winter with little to look forward to stretched ahead, like the dark main street at dawn. He liked walking around the town in the early morning. It reminded him of how it used to be. The old shop fronts, […]

  Iain Kelly

  07/01/2018

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

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• 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

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• DEFIANCE

  

  They sat by the sea watching children play on the beach. ‘Alright?’ he put his arm around her shoulder. The tears slowly running down her face gave him his answer. It had taken her twenty years to return. Years of pain and guilt. She had been their teacher. They had trusted in her. She was […]

  Iain Kelly

  23/05/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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